Steven Rattner

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

— Steven Rattner

India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

— Steven Rattner

Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion…

— Steven Rattner

The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn…

— Steven Rattner

Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce,…

— Steven Rattner

As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating…

— Steven Rattner

Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay…

— Steven Rattner

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

— Steven Rattner

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes…

— Steven Rattner

To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates…

— Steven Rattner

It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.

— Steven Rattner

During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected…

— Steven Rattner

Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally…

— Steven Rattner

To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in…

— Steven Rattner

Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name –…

— Steven Rattner

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

— Steven Rattner

The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the…

— Steven Rattner

Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private…

— Steven Rattner

Neither the George W. Bush nor the Obama administrations volunteered to bail out G.M., Chrysler and other parts of the auto sector.…

— Steven Rattner

Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.

— Steven Rattner

Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to…

— Steven Rattner

From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations -…

— Steven Rattner

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

— Steven Rattner

Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

— Steven Rattner

Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it…

— Steven Rattner