Steven Rattner

Romney's Tall Tales About Private Equity

New York Times | Posted 05.23.2012

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PRESIDENT OBAMA started his general election campaign by taking aim at Mitt Romney’s job creation record at Bain, setting off a lively debate over t...

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What 'Once Upon A Car' Can Teach Us About the Auto Industry, and Detroit

David Kiley | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Bill Vlasic, Auto Bailout, Grand Blvd., US Auto Industry, Once Upon a Car, US Automakers, Steven Rattner, Detroit News

The city of Detroit is still weak and gasping to avoid bankruptcy. In the event of a bankruptcy, the city's union contracts will be torn up, debts eliminated and renegotiated. It would be painful, just as it was for GM and Chrysler.

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It's (Still) All About (Manufacturing) Jobs

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Fta, Great Recession, Manufacturing, Jobs Act, China, G-20, Manufacturing Jobs, Obama Jobs, Unemployment, Obama-Manufacturing, Obama Manufacturing, Steven Rattner, Politics News

It's hard to believe that nearly four years into the worst Recession since the Second World War, while mired in a jobless recovery of unprecedented length and magnitude, we continue to hear that manufacturing jobs don't matter.

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Debt Crisis Sparks America's Global Moment

Andrew Nagorski | Posted 09.27.2011

There was a time when Americans were firmly convinced that European problems were ones that they did not have to worry about. Suddenly, Europe's problems don't look that remote or dissimilar.

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Ex-'Car Czar' To Pay $10 Million To End Pension Scandal Lawsuits

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The investment banker who helped lead the Obama administration's auto industry overhaul has agreed to pay $10 million to settle influence...

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Ex-'Car Czar' Reportedly Close To Settlement On Pay-To-Play Scandal

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Quadrangle Group, Car Czar, Securities Exchange Commission, Pay to Play, Sec, Steven Rattner, Rattner SEC Settlement, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday postponed a vote to settle a case with the Obama administration's former auto in...

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Steve Rattner Wants Retaliation For 'Bully' Cuomo

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — In his four years as New York's attorney general, Andrew Cuomo had his way with Wall Street, muscling banks and bankers into paying fines...

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Ex-'Car Czar' Settles SEC Charges, Then Gets Hit With Another Lawsuit

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's former auto czar agreed Thursday to pay $6.2 million to settle civil charges over his role in an influen...

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Manicurist Hit With Corruption Charges -- Know What I'm Sayin'?

Bill Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Quadrangle Group, Andrew Cuomo, Irs, Wall Street, Countrywide Financial, Mary Schapiro, Robert Khuzami, Obama Transition, Bill Singer, Angelo Mozilo, Securities and Exchange Commission, Steven Rattner, BrokeAndBroker.Com, Business News

You ever wonder where so many popular but annoying sayings come from? How do these things even get started? You know? So, like, you know, just sayin',...

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What Exactly Can Fix The Economy? Pundits Offer Few Solutions

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salmon, House of Representatives, Senate, Congress, Economic Crisis, Business News, Paul Krugman, Democrats, Steven Rattner, Republicans, Business News

Pundits seem to agree that the anticipated Congressional deadlock won't help the economy. And yet they insist on proposing legislative solutions to th...

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Making it

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Car Czar, Joe Klein, Malcolm Gladwell, Wall Street, Private Equity, Overhaul, Steven Rattner, Business News

A commentator looking to take down a Wall Street macher could do worse than setting his sights on Steven Rattner. The former New York Times reporter, ...

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Dope, Dopes and Dopamine: The Problem With Money

Tony Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dopamine, Greed, Financial Crisis, Banks, Angelo Mozilo, Inside Job, Money, Steven Rattner, Cocaine, Business News

For me, the most powerful moment of Inside Job was something the CEO of a large bank said. "We can't control our greed," the CEO acknowledged, in a rare moment of candor and insight. "You should regulate us more."

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Rattner's Case Just Another Chapter in a Frightening New Trend

David Spencer Seconi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Cheating, Pay to Play, Steven Rattner, Pension Funds, Andrew Cuomo, Cerberus Capital Management, Finance, Sec, Auto Industry, Business News

When pension funds are caught up in scandals, it is not the embarrassment of the funds that should be making headline news, but rather the fact that they are playing with future security of millions of workers.

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Former Car Czar: 'TARP Saved Our Country,' GM Bailout Worked

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former car czar Steven Rattner, whose new book, "Overhaul", has been making waves as the first tell-all book to come out of the Obama administration, ...

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Car Czar Steven Rattner On Saving Detroit, From His Book 'Overhaul'

wsj.com | STEVEN RATTNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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The week after his 2008 election, in Chicago, at President Barack Obama's first substantive sit-down with his economic advisers, it was conceded that ...

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I Can Tell You About Steven Rattner's Tell-All

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steven Rattner, the onetime New York Times reporter, former investment banker, would-be private equity media mogul, Hillary Clinton mega-fundraiser, a...

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Happy F**kin' Labor Day!

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Dear Rahm Emanuel, I read this week that during White House meetings about how to save the tens of thousands of jobs that would be lost if GM and Chrysler collapsed, your response was, "F**k the UAW!" Let me give you a little f**king lesson.

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Rahm Emanuel's 'F--k The UAW': White House Pushes Back On Account In Rattner Book, UAW Prez Responds

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

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This story has been updated The White House is forcefully pushing back on former car czar Steve Rattner's upcoming book about his time in Washington,...

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EXCLUSIVE: Car Czar's Tell-All Book Pulls No Punches On Auto Bailout

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rattner Memoir, Overhaul, Steven Rattner, Car Czar Book, Rattner Overhaul, Steve Rattner, Car Czar Memoir, Slidepollajax, Books News

SCROLL DOWN for our slideshow of the book's revelations In "Overhaul", his upcoming chronicle of his reign as "car czar," Steven Rattner offers an in...

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SEC: Steven Rattner, Former Car Czar, Should Be BARRED From Wall Street

nytimes.com | MICHAEL BARBARO | Posted 05.25.2011

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As it investigates a suspected kickback scheme in New York's pension system, the Securities and Exchange Commission has been pushing to bar Steven L. ...

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Steven Rattner Caught Up In Pension Probe

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Pension Probe, Steven Rattner Scandal, Steven Rattner Quadrangle Group, Steven Rattner, Steven Rattner Pension Probe, New York News

NEW YORK — State and federal investigators probing a pay-to-play scandal at New York's giant government pension fund have turned up the heat in ...

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Steven Rattner: GM Had "Stunningly Poor Management"

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Car Czar, General Motors, Steven Rattner, Rick Wagoner, Quandrangle Partners, Business News

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...

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Why There's No Ford in New York's Future

Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter King, Harold Ford, Harold Ford Senate, Harold Ford New York Senator, Harold Ford New York, Harold Ford Gillibrand, New York Senate Seat, Senate Races, Steven Rattner, Harold Ford Jr., New York News, 2010 Elections, Elections 2010, New York News

Now it's Harold Ford Jr. Most New Yorkers probably don't even know he lives here, and suddenly he's being talked about as the Democrat who might seriously challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this fall.

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Harold Ford May Challenge Gillibrand For Senate Seat

Posted 05.25.2011

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Just as Senator Kirsten Gillibrand thought she could breathe a little easier following news that GOP Rep. Peter King is "leaning against" seeking her ...

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Campaign Contributions May Be Linked To Pension Fund Deals

usatoday.com | Kevin McCoy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Quadrangle, Sec, Steven Rattner, Blackstone Group, Caryly Group, Pension Funds, Business News

More than two dozen firms that have surfaced in a broad corruption investigation of public pension funds gave at least $1.97 million in campaign contr...

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