Steven Rattner, the ex "car czar" who helped organize the bailout of the Detroit automakers earlier this year, has begun to speak out about his experi...
Michael Wolff | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
Rattner is the well-connected financier who was the almost-car czar. That is, he was supposed to be the car czar but by some slight of hand he was demoted -- given the job without the title.
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER and KEN THOMAS | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Steven Rattner, who led the Obama administration's efforts to restructure General Motors and Chrysler through swift, government-led...
Bloomberg News | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business
Steven Rattner, head of the U.S. Treasury Department's automotive team, has a net worth of at least $188 million and held shares in an investment fund...
New York Post | MARK DeCAMBRE | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business
STEVEN Rattner, the auto industry adviser to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, is flagrantly thumbing his nose at President Obama's call for Americ...
New York Times | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics
Recent comments by a lawyer representing Chrysler's dissident debtholders alleging that Steven Rattner, the White House's auto task force chief, "dire...
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
I've been writing about Steve Rattner pretty steadily for five or six years. He's been one of my favorite characters from the age of financial ambition.
Don McNay | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business
There has been talk about appointing a new "Systemic Risk Regulator." This "Super Czar" would oversee all of the financial services industry. We had a "Super Czar" last year. His name was Henry Paulson.
The Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
Senator Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia and the longest-serving member of the Senate, issued a press release Wednesday warning agai...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green
One of the wrinkles in the automakers' federal bailout was that many in Congress and the American public didn't seem to trust the automakers to handle...
Bloomberg | John Hughes and Katie Merx | Posted 02.14.2009 | Business
Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Steven Rattner, who may become the U.S. car czar, would bring with him the financial savvy amassed during almost 25 years of d...
ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business
Democrats tell ABC News successful private equity investor Steve Rattner of the investment firm Quadrangle Group has emerged as President-elect Barack...
Steve Parker | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business
Monday brought three conference calls, each about an hour, with executives from each of the Detroit Three announcing, dissecting and, most of all, spi...
Neil Young | Posted 02.04.2009 | Green
Innovators should swarm like locusts on Washington in January, February and March to show the Car Czar how to make fuel-efficient cars.
Steve Parker | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business
This "agreement" is just another part of the recent "Bush/Cheney Revisionist History Farewell Tour." It was created to fail, just as long as that failure didn't happen while Bush was still president.
Bloomberg | Posted 01.16.2009 | Business
The U.S. Treasury may adopt a plan that would let a car czar or the Treasury secretary force General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC into bankruptcy if ...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 01.11.2009 | Style
You'd better watch out/ And heed what I say/You'd better protect your 401(k)/Nasty times are coming to town.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.11.2008 | Media
In a move that some industry insiders called a game-changer, NBC announced today that it would cancel all of its primetime programs and air a static image of its peacock logo every night between 8 and 10.
Steve Parker | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business
And now, it's on to the Senate! The House today passed, 237 to 170, HR 7321, the automotive loan bailout bill, and has sent it on to the Senate. H...
The Huffington Post | Nour Akkad | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business
President Bush and the Congressional democrats have reached an agreement to send $14 million in emergency loans to the struggling auto manufacturers b...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics
You would think that winning the White House and overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress would instill some backbone into Democrats on Capitol Hill. You would, of course, be wrong.
Steve Parker | Posted 12.10.2008 | Business
Almost shockingly, I agree with Alabama Sen. Shelby for his warning that this $15 billion is just the "down payment" on the amounts of cash Detroit really needs, and they may all fail, anyway.
New York Times | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business
The first auto bailout bill -- introduced mid-November and which drew on TARP funding -- has been abandoned. As The New York Times reported Monday,...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Weary Democratic congressional leaders and White House officials agreed in principle Tuesday on a $15 billion bailout of U.S. autom...
Posted 10.21.2009 | Business