All Steven Rattner Quotes
- The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds. American
- Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities. Acceptance
- Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost… Allocating
- Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. Banks
- China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it. Century
- Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet. Ability
- Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas. Beget
- The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it… Act
- 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 interest… Any
- 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… Accumulate
- 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 top… American
- Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much… Auto
- Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the… America
- Neither the George W. Bush nor the Obama administrations volunteered to bail out G.M., Chrysler and other parts of the auto sector. Both subscribed firmly… Administration
- 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… Among
- Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed… Acronym
- 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. Accumulate
- The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012. Congress
- To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting… Achieved
- 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 of… Adjust
- Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops… Assault
- The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a napkin… Blessed