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
I'm saying that we have significant concerns about significant portions ? of this, ... We need to work with Congress to work our way through that.
I'm sure that this will prove to be a phenomenon that is very complicated, involving tens or hundreds of genes.
The new $20 note will be an important tool against would-be counterfeiters,
I'm not going to get into the business of market prognostication,
I had three criteria: I didn't want to be a CEO, I wanted to be involved with an institution I was proud of, and I wanted to be involved in an institution that was important to me,
I've got 11 fly rods and a lot of unread books.
It's very hard to track money in Russia, ... If Russia destabilizes, the cost to the United States is going to be vastly greater.
As you look around the globe, it seems to me that a lot of the countries hurt by the Asian financial crises have made tremendous progress. On the other hand, in all of those countries there's a lot to do.
The international community has a strong program. ? I think the key, however, is that the program is only as effective as the implementation. And I think that we have been in a very aggressive mode over the course of the last year, and I think that what we need to do is remain in even more aggressive mode as we go forward, so each of us does our part,
They can all come together and begin to feed on each other, in which case you could have a very severe and seriously threatening set of economic impacts that would create an immensely difficult problem for our economy and our political system,
We all shared a belief in market-based economics though we had somewhat different views as to the appropriate role of government in our society and felt that what happened abroad could greatly affect our own economic well being,
We all shared a belief in market-based economics ù though we had somewhat different views as to the appropriate role of government in our society ù and felt that what happened abroad could greatly affect our own economic well being,
Fiscal policy is the other ladle in the macroeconomic punch bowl, and consistency in use of the two ladles is powerful, and inconsistency can be injurious,
We have felt from the very beginning that since the problems of Mexico in 1995, that what happens in Latin America is profoundly important for the United States,