A concerned
reader writes:
“Dear Diarist: I understand the average American is getting
a $300 tax-rebate check from the U.S. government. Do you have any advice about
what I should do with this windfall? Sincerely, Robert Rubin, Park Avenue,
Manhattan, New York.”
Dear Mr. Rubin: Like most average Americans, I share your
concern. Read More
For former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, life continues to be sweet. He is still basking in the glow of Citigroup’s acquisition of the Mexican bank Banacci, a deal he put together and that was signed off on by Citigroup chairman Sandy Weill. On May 21, he received his honorary degree from Yale (he is also Read More
The next gubernatorial election is more than two years away, and New York’s Democrats are fully engaged in the business of trying to elect a President and a U.S. Senator. Nevertheless, as Cassius may have said to Brutus, it’s never too early to find a warm home for a cold knife.
State Comptroller H. Carl Read More
These are times when those with money at risk will do well to pay less attention to what the great men among us say than to how they say it, or what they do. I have even interrupted my perusal of the seminal texts of Mugwumpery, The Gilded Age Letters of E.L.Godkin (State University of Read More
When Robert Rubin was Secretary of the United States Treasury, he often wandered around his office with his shoes off, pondering matters of global importance. Now he putters around his temporary office at the Council for Foreign Relations on East 68th Street in his stocking feet, wondering what to do with the rest of his Read More
“The later it happens, the better it is for our dream candidate,” said the very inside Democratic insider on the unexpected subject of when Hillary Rodham Clinton should drop out of the Senate race to which she is, of course, yet to drop in. “Our dream candidate has unlimited resources, an impeccable reputation, and is Read More
