Hedge Funds Cant Mess Up Worse Than Bob Rubin
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
One of the amazing things about attempts to overhaul the financial system is that some fixes are so simple and obvious, yet still so difficult to enact.
Bob Rubin
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The King Report: Brooksley Born vs Summers, Greenspan & Rubin
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Last week, PBS “Frontline” produced a story that describes how Bob Rubin, Easy Al, Larry Summers and others prevented Brooksley Born of the CFTC from instituting controls on the OTC derivative market in the late nineties. “I didn’t know Brooksley Born,” says former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, a member of President Clinton’s powerful Working Group on [...]...
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MATT TAIBBI: Obama’s Big Sellout
Phawker (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... the first place. Taibbi also points to the ties Obama’s appointees have to one main in particular: Bob Rubin, the former Goldman Sachs co-chairman who served as Treasury secretary under Bill Clinton. Click above for Taibbi’s video breakdown of his argument in which he identifies the major players on Obama’s economic team, untangles the web that ties them to Rubin and points to how...
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Goldmanite's Infest Obama White House
The Johnsville News (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
TheHuffingtonPost:Matt Taibbi's 'Obama's Big Sellout': How The White House Is Caving To Wall Street --"[Bob] Rubin probably more than any other person was responsible for the financial crisis by deregulating the economy [while] in the White House. And he had a major role in helping destroy one of the world's biggest company in Citigroup. He has one of the worst tack records you can find,...
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"The Hamilton Project"
pas au-delà (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
The truth about "New" Democrats these days, just so damn depressing ( via ). Which is why those democrats beginning to buck the Bob Rubin/Wall Street/Obama administration circle need serious support, more now than ever. May the rift inside the party force Obama to enact some meaningful change despite his economic advisers and despite who he always was.
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Imus: Obama 'Jimmy Carter Stupid' Regarding Wall Street and the Economy
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and former Treasury Secretary and Citigroup executive Robert Rubin. "We got Geithner and that crook Bob Rubin and these other people they're ruing this country," Imus said. According to Imus, Obama took a different tack during his presidential campaign on changing the dynamic of Wall Street. But as it turned out, he's following in the...
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Matt Taibbi: Obama's Big Sellout to Wall Street
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... have to remember that probably, if you were going to have a Nuremberg for the financial crisis, Bob Rubin would be one of the first people on the dock. Ratigan: Yeah. Taibbi: I mean he has a unique responsibility for what went wrong because he was not only responsible for the bad policy, the deregulatory policy under Clinton but he also helped destroy one of the biggest companies in the...
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Imus: Obama is 'Jimmy Carter Stupid' Regarding Wall Street and Economy
BMI Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and former Treasury Secretary and Citigroup executive Robert Rubin.“We got Geithner and that crook Bob Rubin and these other people they're ruing this country,” Imus said.According to Imus, Obama took a different tack during his presidential campaign on changing the dynamic of Wall Street. But as it turned out, he’s following in the line of former...
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Matt Taibbi: Obama’s Big Sellout to Wall Street
Drunk at idrunk.com (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... you have to remember that probably, if you were going to have a Nuremberg for a financial crisis, Bob Rubin would be one of a first people on a dock. Ratigan: Yeah. Taibbi: I mean he has a unique responsibility for what went wrong because he was not only responsible for a bad policy, a deregulatory policy under Clinton but he also helped destroy one of a biggest companies in a world in CitiGroup....
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White House Releases Visitor Logs… the Afternoon Before a Holiday
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... five times, or that Brent Scowcroft met with National Security Advisor James Jones twice, or that Bob Rubin met with Valerie Jarrett and Larry Summers over the summer, or that Markos Moulitsas has been in the White House twice, or that Colin Powell met with the President in May. But what am I actually getting from that? What patterns arise? I think there can be value in this raw data, but...
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Some nerve
Stop Me Before I Vote Again (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... this Bronxville honey bear, Neal Wolin... ... known as Woodie Tobias to Summers' Doctor Tongue and Bob Rubin's Count Pukula -- back in the Clinton wonder years: Scheer: "In the Clinton years, Wolin was general counsel to then-Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, the key architect of the radical deregulation that caused the recent banking collapse. Summers went off to work for hedge funds...
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CNBC's Gasparino kicks Wall Street's fallen
Phillydeals (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
"John Thain is pretty boring. Stan O'Neal is just ruthless. Dick Fuld is just kind of nasty, Chuck Prince is a doofus, Bob Rubin is kind of out to lunch"
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Gasparino: ‘People Think Because I Go on TV and Scream a Lot I Don’t Have Half a Brain in My Head’
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... boring. Stan O'Neal is just ruthless. Dick Fuld is just kind of nasty, Chuck Prince is a doofus, Bob Rubin is kind of out to lunch … but the culture of [Bear Stearns] has always been kind of interesting to cover. Well, ironically, it seems like Bear Stearns produced more of the guys who "saw it coming," so to speak, than Goldman. John Paulson was a Bear guy, Kyle Bass was...