Robert Rubin
Robert Rubin
Robert Edward Rubinis an American lawyer, former cabinet member, and retired banking executive. He served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during the Clinton administration. Before his government service, he spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs, eventually serving as a member of the board and co-chairman from 1990 to 1992; Rubin oversaw the loosening of financial industry underwriting guidelines which had been intact since the 1930s. His most prominent post-government role was as director and senior counselor...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 August 1938
CityNew York City, NY
We very strongly want to see good financial services modernization legislation passed this year, ... The bill that came out of the Senate banking committee does not meet these requisites.
The only role we can play is to continue to very actively work to persuade the Japanese government to face these very difficult issues they have to deal with,
We always have to be watchful with respect to anything that can affect our system, ... But I don't know of anything in that area that rises to the level of a systemic risk to our economy at this time.
It focuses predominately on middle income tax cuts for education, and for child care and for savings, ... This Week.
I think -- virtual universal agreement -- is that the CPI does not accurately reflect inflation,
The answer to that is no, ... I think the strong dollar policy has served us exceedingly well over the past several years and still does.
It is critically important, not just for Japan, but for the rest of the region and the rest of the world, that that take place.
I think the administration will have a Treasury secretary who is very established with the business community.
It is important to remember that the fundamentals of the United States economy are strong and have been for the past several years, and the prospects for continued growth, with low inflation and low unemployment, are strong,
I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,
Our initial reaction is that we are intrigued by how this merger is going to be positioned and structured; in principle we think it could work as the deal is not simply two companies combining for a lack of something else to do.
Larry and I have been true partners through this whole period, and it's been a wonderful, wonderful partnership,
It is probably not a bad thing for somebody doing data entry, for instance, where the boredom and monotony of it takes a toll on performance.
I don't think we should rule out a change in the CPI if, based on technical analysis, there's a broad-based agreement that the CPI can be changed in such a way as to better and more accurately reflect inflation, ... Meet the Press.