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<title><![CDATA[Steven Rattner - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16297.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Steven Rattner]]></description><category domain="16297">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[We're On Track for Recession Just as 2024 Kicks Off]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/opinion/interest-rates-inflation-federal-reserve.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The case for addressing inflation now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Warned Democrats About Inflation. They Didn't Listen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/opinion/biden-inflation-spending-manchin.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Enough already about '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'transitory'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' inflation. Last Wednesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s terrible Consumer Price Index news shifts our inflation prospects strongly into the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'embedded'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' category: Prices are up 6.2 percent from a year ago, the largest increase in 30 years.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Forecasting Models Predict Trump Will Win Re-Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/opinion/trumps-formidable-2020-tailwind.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The economy and incumbency drive presidential election outcomes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Let Trump Mess With the Fed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/opinion/stephen-moore-fed.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Steady leadership at the Federal Reserve is keeping the economy on track.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hefty Carbon Tax Is the Best Way to Fight Climate Change]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/opinion/green-new-deal-carbon-taxes.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a better way to reduce harmful emissions than the expensive, unwieldy proposal backed by progressive Democrats.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Better Way to Tax the Rich]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/opinion/aoc-wealth-tax.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Raise the capital gains tax and treat investment earnings like ordinary income.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Economic Claims Are Overblown]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/opinion/trump-jobs-economy.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yes, the economy is continuing to expand nicely, which all Americans should celebrate. But no, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nothing remarkable in the overall results since Mr. Trump took office.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Spending Bill Responsible for Trump's Bad Mood?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opinion/trumps-bad-mood-the-spending-bill-border-wall.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Other than military spending, President Trump got virtually nothing from the appropriations bill. Not even for his new border wall.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is China's Version of Capitalism Winning?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/china-economy-state-capitalism-winning.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As China's state-directed economy marches forward, Washington is stuck in neutral and the American economy is in danger of falling behind.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Makes the Right Choice With Jerome Powell]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/opinion/jerome-powell-trump-federal-reserve.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps not surprisingly, President Trump seemed to treat the appointment of a new head of the Federal Reserve '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' arguably the most important personnel decision he has faced '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a bit like a season of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Bachelor,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' dangling tantalizing hints before handing the rose to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why 'Medicare for All' Will Sink the Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/opinion/medicare-for-all-democrats.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Bernie Sanders approach to health care politics has never served the party well.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Budget Cuts? More Like Radical Surgery]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/opinion/trump-budget-cuts-medicaid-taxes.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With a week to sift through the Trump administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first full-fledged budget proposal, two inescapable realities have come into sharper focus: the enormous magnitude of the desired cuts in many domestic programs and an utter disdain for numerical integrity. First, no budget in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Budget: The Math Is Phony But the Cruelty Isn't]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/opinion/trumps-budget-the-math-is-phony-but-the-cruelty-isnt.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Phony math is a time-honored tradition in the Washington world of budget making, but the first full fiscal plan from the Trump administration breaks new ground. The bottom line: A budget that the White House says will be in balance by 2027 would, in reality, remain deeply in red ink...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Folks: Tell the Truth About Your Tax Plan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/opinion/trump-tax-plan-mnuchin.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday, President Trump unveiled his huge tax cut, unmistakably geared to helping business and the wealthy. A few days later, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at a business conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., that there would be no net tax cut for the rich because it would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Tax Cuts May Be More Damaging Than Reagan's]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/opinion/trumps-tax-cuts-may-be-more-damaging-than-reagans.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a young New York Times reporter nearly four decades ago, I helped chronicle the rollout of what proved to be among our country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s greatest economic follies '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the alchemistic belief that huge tax cuts can pay for themselves by unleashing faster economic growth.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pushing Obamacare Over the Cliff]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/opinion/pushing-obamacare-over-the-cliff.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After Republicans pulled their legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act last Friday, President Trump told The Washington Post, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The best thing politically is to let Obamacare explode.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Or he could light a match. Republicans may have conceded defeat in their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Undoing Obamacare Will Be So Hard]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/opinion/why-undoing-obamacare-will-be-so-hard.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House Republicans will be unveiling their replacement for the Affordable Care Act (a/k/a Obamacare) next week and the White House has been signaling that it may reveal its thoughts not long after. But what is becoming increasingly clear is the extent to which Obamacare has become...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Economic Prescription. First: Do Harm.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/opinion/trumps-economic-prescription-first-do-harm.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald J. Trump is positioned to achieve the most radical reshaping of economic policy since Ronald Reagan. Even under Reagan, Republicans never controlled both houses of Congress.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, the Next Big Short]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/opinion/trump-the-next-big-short.html?action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=opinion-c-col-left-region%C2%AEion=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Republican billionaire entrepreneur runs for president on a platform of huge tax cuts for the rich and for business and yet, when his candidacy appears ascendant, the markets swoon.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' When the prospects brighten for his Democratic challenger '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' who has not held a private sector job...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Created Trump by Opposing Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/opinion/by-opposing-obama-the-republicans-created-trump.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Memo to Republican legislators biting your nails over the New York primary, wondering if you can finally derail Donald J. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s candidacy with, gulp, Ted Cruz: You brought it on yourselves.Not just by failing for too long to take Mr. Trump seriously or by lacking an effective...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Gets the Blame for the Slowing Economy?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/opinion/who-gets-the-blame-for-the-slowing-economy.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Economic alarm bells are ringing: Financial markets have wilted. Forecasters have been slicing their projections for future growth. And some leading wise men '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' including the megabillionaire George Soros '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' are predicting a return to disastrous 2008 conditions. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s almost...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2015: The Year in Charts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/28/opinion/rattner-2015-year-in-charts.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By the end of 2015, the economy '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' still leaving too many Americans behind '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' has regrettably almost disappeared from the news, overshadowed by the twin evils of Donald J. Trump and the Islamic State. Meanwhile, Congress continued to burnish its record of doing little that was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Raise Interest Rates]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/opinion/dont-raise-interest-rates.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IF Ben S. Bernanke were to write a sequel to his recently published memoir, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Courage to Act,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he might well want to call it '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Courage Not to Act.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' For that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s what the Federal Reserve needs at its rate-setting meeting today and at least some of those to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're Making Life Too Hard for Young People]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/opinion/sunday/were-making-life-too-hard-for-millennials.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Germany Should Be Thanked]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/opinion/overregulating-life-in-greece.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In dominating the debate over how to address the Greek crisis, Germany has shown that economic success brings political influence, which it wielded last weekend to brush away requests from France and Italy for more lenient treatment of their neighbor.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Free the President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/opinion/free-the-president.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LAST week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s news from Washington: A dysfunctional Congress managed to function just long enough to bludgeon President Obama into ceding his prerogative to enter into an executive agreement with Iran regarding its nuclear program.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Tens of Millions, Obamacare Is Working]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/22/sunday-review/steven-rattner-for-tens-of-millions-obamacare-is-working.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ever since President Obama unveiled his health care plan in 2009, critics have questioned its lofty promise to bring affordable health insurance to millions of Americans.Now statistics for the second year are largely in hand and the verdict is indisputable: Its disastrous 2013 rollout...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fear Not the Coming of the Robots]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[JUST over 50 years ago, the cover of Life magazine breathlessly declared the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'point of no return for everybody.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Above that stark warning, a smaller headline proclaimed, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Automation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s really here; jobs go scarce.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Saving Young People From Themselves]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/opinion/sunday/saving-young-people-from-themselves.html?ref=opinion&amp;gwh=52DB270641D221A02045F2FB0427927D&amp;gwt=pay&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RETIREMENT is a financial obligation that today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s younger generations are not handling well. That may be through no fault of their own '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' they suffer from lower incomes, after being adjusted for inflation, and student debt that makes it a struggle to save. But regardless of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke Should Be Thanked]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/opinion/bernanke-should-be-thanked.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Rattner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ben S. Bernanke ascended to the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve eight years ago as a little-known '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' albeit distinguished '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' Princeton economics professor who had notched just three years of federal public service.]]></description>
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