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Obama Defends His Economic Team's Rubin Proteges

New York Times Magazine | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Crisis, Larry Summers Tim Geithner, Rubin Proteges, Obama Economic Policy Team, Financial Crisis, Obama Rubin, Bob Rubin, Proteges of Bob Rubin, Politics News

On April 14, President Obama gave a speech at Georgetown University, trying to explain why he was taking on so many economic issues so early in his ad...

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Help Dig Up The Praise That Today's Bailout Bandits Once Received

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 04.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Mack, John Thain, Bailout Bandits, Madoff, Allen Stanford, Ken Lewis, Ezra Merkin, Fuld, Jacob Ezra Merkin, Bernie Madoff, Bob Rubin, John Mack, Pandit, Bailout Outrage, Business News

Over the past few months we've seen the media begin to cast a hairy eye on many of the financial characters it once dubbed as experts, creators of gre...

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Where is the Economic Team of Rivals?

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Citigroup, Robert Rubin, Clinton, Economy, Deregulation, Regulation, Free Trade, Peter Orszag, Timothy Geithner, Bob Rubin, Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, Obama Cabinet, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

It appears there is at least one area of his fledgling administration that is not open to discussion or debate -- the economy.

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Democrats and Republicans Made The Mortgage Crisis -- Quit The Blame Game

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Congressional Democrats, John McCain, Fannie, Bailout, Senate Republicans, Bill Clinton, Freddie, Sanford Weill, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Bob Rubin, Barack Obama, Financial Meltdown, Glass-Steagall, Mortgage Crisis, Politics News
Stephen C. Rose

By Stephen C. Rose There are two key pieces of evidence in the maelstrom we are now calling a meltdown -- but which began with a mortgage crisis. The...

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Who Is Obama Speaking To About the Economy?

Jeff Madrick | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Regulating Wall Street, Minimum Wage, Eric Schmidt, Obama Economic Policies, Paul Volcker, Barack Obama, Bob Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Warren Buffet, Politics News
Jeff Madrick

Obama may hear something fresh on energy and infrastructure, including broadband, from Rubin and Summers. But Obama should be asking these men some serious question about how we got here.

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Thomas B. Edsall

Obama Moves To The Center

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Reich, Barack Obama, Sandy Berger, Richard Holbrooke, Obama Centrist, Jason Furman, Obama Furman, Robert Rubin, Paul Krugman, Obama Moves Center, Bob Rubin, Obama Jason Furman, Obama Economic Adviser, Politics News

Barack Obama faces the difficult task of shifting his message away from the primary electorate to general election voters, while avoiding angering the...

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