Entries tagged "Rubin"
If you believe Charles Gasparino's latest column in The Daily Beast, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is losing sleep over his role in the financial crisis.
Nobel winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in a Bloomberg interview worries that too many Obama advisers are in the pocket of Wall Street.
Days after President-elect Barack Obama announced his selection of Federal Reserve Bank of New York President Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary, a debate flared up about his readiness to oversee the Troubled Asset Relief Plan. Since then, a veritable chorus of detractors have begun to question Geithner's viability as a potential member of the Obama Cabinet. Some include economist and comedian Ben Stein and Edward Hellmore of British newspaper The Guardian, who both attempt to link Geithner to the failures of Citigroup Inc. by way of Robert Rubin. ...
If you are a betting man, then US News & World Report's The Home Front blog provides the odds of some of the oft-mentioned contenders for President-elect Barack Obama's treasury secretary. ...
The guessing game over who Barack Obama would name to top White House posts is in full swing on the eve of Tuesday's national election. There are dueling prognosticative camps over who a President Obama would put in charge of the Treasury Department. While there is no consensus over who will get the job, there is a fair amount of agreement that Obama has already made up his mind -- but has not shared his decision widely enough for word to leak out. That leaves plenty of room for rampant, unfounded speculation -- the most fun kind. ...
Though his mercurial rescue of the global financial is still a work in progress, some observers are beginning to speak of Henry M. Paulson Jr. as one of the great secretaries of the Treasury. It's a lofty claim, and he'll be worthy of the title if his rescue package succeeds. But he also has some strong competition from others who took on the top financial post in more trying times. It's difficult, especially with the crisis roiling on, to assign Paulson a position in the all-time league tables. ...
