Robert Rubin Resigns As Citigroup Adviser
NEW YORK — Officials at the embattled banks Citigroup and Morgan Stanley will negotiate over the weekend about possibly combining their wealth m...
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Obama's Perilous Compromise with Looters
Jeffrey Klein | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics
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Tragically, the architects of the current economic fiasco have been placed in charge of America's recovery. President-elect Obama has made an enormous mistake.
Bailing Out Dan Quayle
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.14.2009 | Business
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The battle over the bailout of some segments of the US auto industry has become increasingly defined in terms of class, but this hides the fact that the same type of players will benefit from both bailouts.
Obama's Global Challenge
Marco Trbovich | Posted 01.11.2009 | Green
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America's energy future is a goods news, bad news joke. The good news is that America has enough domestic resources to meet its energy needs. The bad news is, the resource is coal.
Should Progressives Be Upset with Obama?
David Corn | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
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With these hawkish, Rubin-esque, middle-of-the-road picks, has Obama abandoned the folks who brought him to the dance?
Ten Democrats Who Should Go Away
Ben Cohen | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics
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The Democrats have in some ways, been worse than the Republicans. As a party, they've stood idly by as the Bush Administration has literally ransacked the country.
Investors Accuse Citi Execs Of "Suspicious" Trades Of Over $150 Million
Reuters | Martha Graybow | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business
An investor lawsuit contends that Citigroup Inc insiders, including senior counselor and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, sold more than $...
IOUSA: Failed Scare Flick of the Decade
Dean Baker | Posted 01.02.2009 | Business
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Every few years there is a book or movie that stands out for its incredibly bad timing. The new documentary IOUSA seems destined to join earlier classics of this genre.
Robert Rubin's Awkward, Damning Citigroup Crisis Interviews
New York Magazine | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
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Last week's New York Times article, which blamed him for bringing down Citigroup and really the entire global economy, must have been difficult for Ro...
Robert Rubin: Coward or Liar -- or Both?
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics
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It's Judgment Day. Rubin needs to get a pink slip and stand on the unemployment line with the vast sea of people he helped put there.
Former Treasury Secretary Rubin On Meltdown: "Nobody Was Prepared For This"
Think Progress | Matthew Yglesias | Posted 12.30.2008 | Business
Robert Rubin speaks up for himself: "Nobody was prepared for this," Mr. Rubin said in an interview. He cited former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Gre...
Obama Chooses Wall Street Over Main Street
Robert Scheer | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics
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Maybe Ralph Nader was right: the same Wall Street hustlers will have a lock on our government no matter which major party wins the election. How else is one to respond to Obama's economic picks?
Obama's Wall Street Woes
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
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Obama presented his economic team -- all protégés of Robert Rubin -- just as the Treasury was pumping out billions to rescue Citibank -- which featured Rubin as chair of its executive committee. Is this the change we need?
Congress Bails out Those Who Shower Before Work, but not Those who Shower After Work
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business
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Detroit is a place where workers are unionized; Wall Street is not. And right-wing Republicans and conservative pundits have made it clear they want the union workers to suffer.
Arranging Mr. Geithner's Priorities: Economy NewsLadder
The Media Consortium | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
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By Zach Carter MediaWire Blogger President-elect Barack Obama announced his economic transition team yesterday--and we'll get to that--but first let'...
Is Robert Rubin "Competent" Enough To Guide Team Obama?
Jane Hamsher | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business
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Yes, it's incredible that nobody required Rubin and the board to resign as a condition of the Citibank bailout. But I tend to look at these final days as the BushCo crooks holding their final heist.
Flashback: "Citigroup's Self-Immolation and the Beginning of the Eclipse of American Style Capitalism"
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business
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Sorry, I was wrong ten months ago. The Citigroup bell has not tolled. The rot at the heart of American capitalism continues unabated.
Where is the Economic Team of Rivals?
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
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It appears there is at least one area of his fledgling administration that is not open to discussion or debate -- the economy.
Obanomics
Joshuah Bearman | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business
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Obama fundamentally trusts markets, but believes that they make grievous errors (I'll say!), and that those errors must at times be aggressively corrected. Is that a new idea? If so, then no wonder we're screwed.
Change We Can Bank On
Robert Scheer | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
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This is not change we can believe in -- not if Robert Rubin or his protégé, Lawrence Summers, get to call the shots on the economy in Obama's incoming administration.
It's Bozo The Clown's Fault, Not The "Free Market"
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business
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The current president's pronouncements that the "free market" isn't at fault for the financial meltdown led me to dig deep, investigate and discover the real culprit: Bozo The Clown.
Who Wasn't On Stage With Obama and Should Have Been?
Steve Clemons | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics
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I'm not satisfied with the roster of economic personalities and thinkers we see Barack Obama mixing with.
Will Obama's First Term Really Just be a Hybrid of Clinton III and GW Bush III?
Steve Clemons | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
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There is a strong chance that Lawrence Summers is going to be returned to the post of Secretary of the Treasury. Larry will have to prove to us that he is different and not the harbinger of Clinton Term III.
Estrogen for Obama
Sara Davidson | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
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It's hard to describe how transported we felt walking out of that women's conference. Some were in tears. Others felt reassured to have heard in person the kind of policy Obama wants to enact.
Stewart Heckled by Wall St. Crowd Over Obama
Vicky Ward | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
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Comedian Jon Stewart, probably New York's most beloved television host, started to speak -- and to my astonishment -- was heckled
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