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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Few people know how to pull a rabbit out of a hat better than Felix Rohatyn, who is credited with saving New York City in its fiscal crisis thirty years ago. Today in Forbes he calls for an "investment oriented stimulus package", noting that paying for infrastructure is not a bailout but an investment in the future. After the usual suspects like roads, bridges, transit and schools, he...
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DarkGovernment (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... are ever more desperately afraid of an FDR reflex. Thus, the recent surfacing of their patsy Felix Rohatyn, an admitted hater of Roosevelt and LaRouche, in major European press, allegedly promoting a New Bretton Woods, in opposition to the momentum being created around LaRouche’s international proposals for a new monetary system. The looming danger, however, is that the British, having...
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Avuncular American (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... is for real, and ignored at our peril. The ASCE Report Card is the point of departure for Felix Rohatyn and Everett Ehrlich, writing in the October 9 New York Review of Books , "A New Bank to Save Our Infrastructure." They propose the creation of a National Infrastructure Bank, an institution that would be similar to the World Bank, a private investment bank, or any other entity that...
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The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... though some reports have—erroneously—described him as a protégé of former Lazard investment banker Felix Rohatyn. (Gotbaum’s father, Victor, worked with Rohatyn to solve New York City’s financial crisis in the 1970s and they were once friendly. Josh Gotbaum came to Lazard with Rohatyn’s help.)
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... Sachs (Columbia) has dealt with financial crisis over a quarter century in all parts of the world. Felix Rohatyn is famed as the man who saved NYC from its financial crisis of the 1970s as well as a leading financier, diplomat, and voice for public responsibility. This conversation, moderated by Charlie Rose , among these three experts will enable the public to join in a unique reasoned...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
... run their infallible courses) ignoring the potential consequences of their smug certainties.Felix Rohatyn, the financier who played such a large role in the city’s economic recovery, has told me many times of the economic summit near Paris in November 1975 in which President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing of France and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany explained to Mr. Ford that...
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
... of Bill'During the Clinton years, the posts also were filled by such FOBs ("Friends of Bill") as Felix Rohatyn, the investment banker who along with his wife contributed an estimated $600,000 to Clinton and the in the era before campaign-finance reform."It is the last vestige of the patronage system for federal jobs," said Tex Harris, former president of the American Foreign Service...
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Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
... seat. During the Clinton years, the posts also were filled by such FOBs (Friends of Bill) as Felix Rohatyn, the investment banker turned envoy to France who along with his wife contributed an estimated $600,000 to Clinton and the in the era before campaign finance reform. "It is the last vestige of the patronage system for federal jobs," said Tex Harris, former president of the American...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
... worked briefly in the Carter administration before becoming a protégé of the investment banker Felix Rohatyn at Lazard Frères & Company. He worked in the Clinton administration as an assistant secretary of defense, an assistant secretary of Treasury and controller of the Office of Management and Budget.In a May 2001 essay for Government Executive magazine, Gotbaum reflected on...
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... 4th, 2008 9:26 pm ETNew York was screwed by Gerald Ford in 1976. It took so long to come back from Felix Rohatyn and the liars and hustlers on Wall Street. The People–in Brooklyn, in Harlem, on the Upper East Side, on the Upper West Side, in Queens–they freakin' rock! New York City was the capital of the US in 1789! President Washington lived at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge Pearl...
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Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
... made me think that in the near future, we won't get the luxury of leaving tech blow-ups to others. Felix Rohatyn, the financial wizard, bragged on NPR this weekend that he doesn't know how to use a computer. Okay, so maybe at age 80, Felix gets a pass. But the rest of us have got to get real. We're all computer guys now.
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SimoleonSense (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
... Street and the return to normal banking - Wall Street giants Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase; Felix Rohatyn, recently senior adviser to Lehman Brothers; and Charles Munger, Warren Buffett’s curmudgeonly sidekick, predict the end of huge leverage and the return of Wall Street to an earlier era when investment firms were mainly “advising corporations and individuals globally and...
