Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.
Steven RattnerThe highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
Steven RattnerIncreased 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 wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.
Steven RattnerThe largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.
Steven Rattner