RollingStone.com: Matt Taibbi | Taibblog Thu 2010-09-23 09:37 EDT

Bob Rubin Cuddles

Matt Taibbi

...No man's behavior looks attractive when he's cheating on his wife, but this little tell-all by a woman who had a sort-of fling with former Goldman chief and Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin is more than unusually embarrassing...The most disgusting (and revealing) part of the story is, to me, this part of Iris Mack's narrative... A multi-multi-millionaire giving a homeless guy a dollar on the way to the Ritz...if that isn't the perfect metaphor for the modern ``Third Way'' Democratic Party, I don't know what is...Bob Rubin's main job at Citi was to hang around and be available for his political connections. His job, as I understand it, was a sort of permanent, ongoing bribe...

Bob Rubin cuddle; com; Matt Taibbi; rollingstone; Taibblog.

The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time Sun 2009-12-13 09:08 EST

RUBIN'S RUBES: Matt Taibbi's slapdown of the Obama Administration

In the December issue of Rolling Stone the journalist Matt Taibbi hits yet another grand slam exposing the murky world of Wall Street and Washington politics ("Obama's Big Sellout"). Taibbi provides a detailed and thoughtful analysis on the myriad connections between numerous Obama appointees and Robert Rubin, the Obama presidential campaign's economic advisor, and former Clinton Treasury Secretary who led the charge for the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, to create the megamerger that was to become Citigroup.

economic populist; Matt Taibbi's slapdown; Mind 2 Cents; Obama administration; RUBIN'S RUBES; speaking; Time.

Jesse's Café Américain Tue 2009-11-03 20:06 EST

A Brilliant Warning On Robert Rubin's Proposal to Deregulate Banks, circa 1995

Jesse

...The notion that Glass-Steagall prevents American financial intermediaries from fulfilling their utmost potential in a global marketplace reflects inadequate understanding of the events that precipitated the act and the similarities between today's financial marketplace and the market nearly a century ago...The unbridled activities of those gifted financiers crumbled under the dynamic forces of the capital marketplace. If you take away the checks, the market forces will eventually knock the system off balance. Mark D. Samber (1995)

Brilliant Warning; circa 1995; Deregulate Banks; Jesse's Café Américain; Robert Rubin's Proposal.

Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST

naked capitalism: New York Times: Citi Woes Due to Lousy Risk Controls, Plus Prince's and Rubin's Strategy

entertaining comments!

Citi Woes; Lousy Risk Controls; naked capitalism; New York time; Prince's; Rubin's Strategy.