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Obanomics

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Robert Rubin, Obama, Robert Reich, Economics, Barack Obama, Obama Economics, Obanomics, Obama Economy, Business News

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.

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Change We Can Bank On

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Phil Gramm, Henry Paulson, Mortgage, Fdic, Barack Obama, Economy, Lawrence Summers, Foreclosure, Timothy Geithner, Pornography of Power, Robert Rubin, Sheila Bair, Barney Frank, Treasury Secretary, Obama Cabinet, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News

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.

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It's Bozo The Clown's Fault, Not The "Free Market"

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Robert Rubin, Wages, Class Warfare, American Dream, Pensions, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Bozo the Clown, Financial Crisis, Business News

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.

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Who Wasn't On Stage With Obama and Should Have Been?

Steve Clemons | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Penny Pritzker, Adam Posen, Alan Murray, James Galbraith, George Soros, Doug & Heidi Rediker, Leo Hindery, Eric Schmidt, Richard Parsons, Tom Gallagher, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Economic Team, Warren Buffet, Kevin Phillips, William Daley, William Donaldson, Jennifer Granholm, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Samuelson, Paul Krugman, Roel Campos, William Bonvillian, Jeffrey Sachs, C. Fred Bergsten, Robert Reich, Antonio Villaraigosa, Joseph Biden, Charlene Barshefsky, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Robert Rubin, Austan Goolsbee, David Bonior, Economic Policy, Rahm Emanuel, Bernard Schwartz, Jason Furhman, Sheila Bair, Anne Mulcahy, Roger Ferguson, Clyde Prestowitz, Sherle Schwenninger, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News

I'm not satisfied with the roster of economic personalities and thinkers we see Barack Obama mixing with.

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Will Obama's First Term Really Just be a Hybrid of Clinton III and GW Bush III?

Steve Clemons | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin, Economic Policy, Gerald Ford, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Neoliberalism, Timothy Geithner, Rubinomics, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Barack Obama, Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Larry Summers, Obama Treasury Secretary, Obama's Economic Team, Obama's Economic Plan, Larry Summers Treasury Secretary, Politics News

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.

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Estrogen for Obama

Sara Davidson | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

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.

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Stewart Heckled by Wall St. Crowd Over Obama

Vicky Ward | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Rubin, Barack Obama Taxes, Wall Street, Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, Jon Stewart, Financial Crisis, 2008 Election, Politics News

Comedian Jon Stewart, probably New York's most beloved television host, started to speak -- and to my astonishment -- was heckled

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The Battle for Obama's Economic Soul

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Phil Gramm, Warren Buffett, Bailout, Barack Obama, Clinton, Truthdig, Sarah Palin, Deregulation, Socialist, Pornography of Power, Robert Rubin, Politics News

The battle for Barack Obama's economic soul is on in earnest, and it has nothing to do with the "European socialism" that John McCain attempted to use as an epithet against him.

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Boston Tea Party, 2008

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

How dare you throw that tea into Boston Harbor! Such is the anti-democratic arrogance of telling us if we don't instantly give Wall Street $700 billion, then we are destroying America.

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Take A Deep Breath And Count To Three

Aaron Harber | Posted 09.25.2008 | Business

Congress and the current Administration have allowed the nation's finances to deteriorate to a dangerous level.

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A Fitting Denouement to the Era of George W. Bush

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Rubin, John McCain, Economy, Hillary Clinton, Glass-Steagall, Barack Obama, Economic Meltdown, Financial Crisis, Herbert Hoover, Politics News

The worst financial collapse since the Great Depression is somehow a fitting end to eight miserable years under the worst presidential administration ...

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How Obama Can Demonstrate Real Leadership on the Economic Crisis

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, McCain Economy, Obama Economy, Barack Obama, Don Imus, Robert Rubin, Phil Gramm, Barack Obama Wall Street Crisis, Mccain Phil Gramm, Laura Tyson, Financial Crisis, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Politics News

For Obama to show the kind of transformational leadership the crisis demands, he needs to do what so many of his critics have chided him for not doing: take a stand that puts him at odds with the establishment of his own Party. Read More WATCH: Arianna On The CBS Early Show Discussing America's Changing Perception of Sarah Palin The Palin Doctrine: Why the Neocons Are So Excited Sarah Palin may not have known what the Bush Doctrine was, but we're getting a pretty good idea of what the Palin Doctrine is. And what is it going to look like? Let's just say, it's going to seem familiar. Read More

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Senator Obama: Seize this Moment

Matt Littman | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Rubin, John McCain, Robert Reich, Barack Obama, Warren Buffet, Politics News

We don't know what's coming next. Our houses are losing value. Our 401ks are losing value.

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A Conversation with Larry Summers and Robert Rubin

Charlie Rose | Posted 09.11.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Larry Summers, Robert Rubin, Charlie Rose, China, Barack Obama, Economy, Business News

I recently spoke to Summers and Rubin about today's economic crisis and what the next president's economic agenda should look like.

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Who's Your Economic Daddy?

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 08.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Keynesian Economics, Robert Rubin, John McCain Economic Policy, Joseph Schumpeter, Economic Policy, Economy, Supply-Side Economics, Obama Economic Policy, Innovation, Technology, Rubinomics, R&D, Business News

Virtually all policy makers involved in economic policy subscribe to a particular economic doctrine, even if they may not be aware of which "camp" they are in.

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Sucking Up to the Bankers: A Bipartisan Lovefest

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Phil Gramm, Campaign '08, Subprime Mortgages, Housing, Economy, Rubin, Pornography of Power, Obama, President, 2008 Election, Barack Obama Economy, Barack Obama, Robert Rubin, Business News

Both of our leading presidential candidates are scrambling to enlist the "expertise" of the very folks who advocated the financial industry deregulations at the heart of this meltdown.

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It's the Economy, Stupid -- Part Deux

Zachary Karabell | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: McCain Campaign, Warren Buffett, Robert Rubin, Obama, Economy, Election, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News

Obama has a remarkable ability to reframe the public debate, but generating passion around "the economy" is still elusive.

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Robert Rubin: A VP Choice that Signals "We Will Fix the Economy" for the Middle Class

Paul Abrams | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton, Wall Street, Trade, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Bill Richardson, Barack Obama, Treasury Secretary, Economy, Politics News

In an election focused on the economy, and, more precisely, an ailing economy that needs major surgery, selecting Bob Rubin powerfully sends that message.

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Obama Moves To The Center

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Reich, Barack Obama, Sandy Berger, Richard Holbrooke, Obama Centrist, Jason Furman, Obama Furman, Robert Rubin, Paul Krugman, Obama Moves Center, Bob Rubin, Obama Jason Furman, Obama Economic Adviser, Politics News

Barack Obama faces the difficult task of shifting his message away from the primary electorate to general election voters, while avoiding angering the...

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Union Critical Of Obama's Top Economic Aide, Slams "Rubinomics"

The New York Times | LOUIS UCHITELLE | Posted 06.12.2008 | Business

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Acting quickly after securing his party's presidential nomination, Barack Obama picked a well-known representative of Bill Clinton's economic policies...

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Who Gets Us Out of the Mess?

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

The folks who helped dig the hole we are in aren't likely to be the best in getting us out of it.

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Sen. Clinton, You Want Who To Fix Our Economic Mess?

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Rubin, Ron Blackwell, Subprime Mortgages, Financial Crisis, Paul Krugman, Hillary Clinton, Alan Greenspan, Class Warfare, Paul Volcker, Barack Obama, Dean Baker, Bush Economy, U.S. Economy, Economy, Recession, Politics News

We need an overhaul of the financial system. But rather than put the same people in charge who have created the mess, we need a different constellation of thinkers.

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Citigroup's Self-Immolation and the Beginning of the Eclipse Of American-Style Capitalism

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 01.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Deutsche Bank, Vikram Pandit, Citigroup Inc., Robert Rubin, Bill Gates, "Chuck" Prince, Citigroup Layoffs, Capitalism, Business News

Citigroup has became the poster child of so much that is wrong, and much of what is happening throughout corporate America.

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Which Side Are You On?

Larry Abrams | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Culture Wars, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, New Deal, Michael Bloomberg, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Clinton Years, Michael Dukakis, War on Drugs, Barack Obama, Structural Adjustment, McCain Iraq, Fdr New Deal, National Endowment for the Humanities, Robert Rubin, Hillary Electability, Rudy Giuliani, Ross Perot, John Edwards, Henry Paulson, Reagan Sandinistas, Hillary Clinton, Commodification, Free Market, Values Voters, Politics News

Getting rid of Bush will be good and great thing, but it doesn't make the case for Hillary Clinton. The problem with Hillary is that she doesn't really fit the political moment.

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Hillary and The Clinton Legacy

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Democrats, Democratic Primary, Rubinomics, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

That she's benefited from her husbands' political legacy goes without saying, but what is striking is how irrelevant -- if not simply wrong-headed -- his policy legacy is to the challenges we now face.

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