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Rubin, the third economist in three years to speak at Harvard’s Commencement ceremonies, has been called the “steward of America’s economy” by former White House Chief of Staff John D. Podesta. Rubin follows Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and the Nobel prize-winning scholar of the developing world’s economics, professor emeritus Amartya...
...social values are in the right place and they temper his views as an economist," says John Podesta, who served as chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, and who worked with Summers when he was at the Treasury...
...Podesta says that Summers does not subscribe to the "mercenary view" that what's good for the economy must be the right thing to do, but takes the greater good into consideration when making decisions...
Next on the griddle were Clinton's most dogged lieutenants, the bunker squad--chief of staff John Podesta, counsel Beth Nolan and endlessly faithful consigliere Bruce Lindsey. All of them had the same message: During those wild, sleepless final days, they had protested in force against the notion of pardoning Rich, a fugitive who had illegally bought more than $200 million worth of oil from Iran during the hostage crisis and dodged paying $48 million in one of the biggest tax frauds in history. They were so adamant in their opposition that after a Jan. 16 meeting, they assumed...
...Daze--sounded so plausible that some thought it explained why Clinton waived his Executive privilege and allowed his counselors to testify. This is what passes as the best defense--not that he was venal but that he was an idiot. "I think that people are finally tiring of it," Podesta told Time, "but as long as it's still selling cable-TV rating points, it will probably go on a little longer...