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

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

- 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 the impact …

- 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. Both subscribed f…

- Steven Rattner

Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what h…

- 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 any change in the app…

- 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 insist t…

- Steven Rattner

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

- Steven Rattner

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

- Steven Rattner