During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
