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Steven Lawrence Rattner is an American financier who served as lead adviser to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry in 2009 for the Obama administration. He is currently chairman and chief executive officer of Willett Advisors LLC, the private investment group that manages billionaire former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's personal and philanthropic assets. He continues to be involved in public policy matters as the economic analyst for MSNBC's Morning Joe, and as a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times op-ed page.

Before joining the Obama Administration, he was a managing principal of the Quadrangle Group, a private equity investment firm that specialized in the media and communications industries. Prior to co-founding Quadrangle, he was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and Lazard Freres & Co., where he rose to deputy chairman and deputy chief executive officer. Rattner began his career as a journalist for The New York Times. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. July 1952
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Famous Steve Rattner Quotes

“It’s time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.”

Steve Rattner

Steve Rattner https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/reclaim-the-center/, The New York Times, op-ed, 5 April 2013.

“China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.”

Steve Rattner

Steve Rattner https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/india-is-losing-the-race/, The New York Times, op-ed, 19 January 2013.

“Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.”

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Steve Rattner http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/opinion/health-care-reform-beyond-obamacare.html, The New York Times, op-ed, 16 September 2012.

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