Roger Altman
Roger Altman
Roger Charles Altman is an American investment banker, the founder and executive chairman of Evercore, and a former Democratic politician. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Carter administration from January 1977 until January 1981 and as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration from January 1993 until he resigned in August 1994, amid the Whitewater controversy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth2 April 1946
CountryUnited States of America
Cheap natural gas is a big stimulus to petrochemical production and a meaningful one for all U.S. manufacturing.
The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.
In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.
In September 2008, the overleveraged and undermanaged U.S. banking system suffered a terrifying collapse. And that, in turn, nearly took the whole country down.
I think Obamacare, for all its controversy, is actually working.
Ed is a visionary. He has a very long-term point of view and he knows exactly what he believes in. You don't meet many people who are as sure in what they believe in, long-term, as Ed does.
As we all know, the budget decisions which give rise to increased debt are what counts, and the debt is just a by-product of those budget decisions.
Real GDP growth has been relatively healthy, but most Americans don't feel it. It's a transformative time for the U.S. economy.
The United States is much further along because its financial crisis struck three years before Europe's, in 2008, causing headwinds that have pressured it ever since.
Russia's oil fields are mature and require capital and Western technology even to keep production flat.
The more Mr. Putin extends the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the more the financial markets will ratchet up their own pressure on Russia.
I don't think there's a more battle-hardened veteran anywhere than Larry Summers.
The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining.
The financial and economic crash of 2008, the worst in over 75 years, is a major geopolitical setback for the United States and Europe.