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According to an account in Rubin??s book on Murakami, Murakami and his wife had a special bed made to accommodate Carver’s large build for his expected visit to Japan. Carver suddenly died of cancer before he could make the trip. “I thought I could do that at any time, and all of a sudden he died, and I was shocked,” Murakami says...
...Summers, Rubin??s role on the Corporation is both a blessing and a curse. Rubin was, by all accounts, Summers’ greatest advocate during the presidential search and would surely be less inclined than most to fire his good friend. But Rubin??s presence has also reinforced the growing impression on campus of an acquiescent governing board packed with Summers’ own appointees...
Summers’ reputation for impolitic remarks long preceded his January comments. But during the Clinton administration, observers in the capital thought that Summers—under Rubin??s tutelage—had learned to hold his tongue. “Summers very much went from being perceived as ‘the bull in the china shop’ to ‘the bull who has been housebroken,’” Henderson says...
...according to Henderson, “any Democratic nominee would want Rubin??s support because it would hark back to the economic glory days of the Clinton administration...
...result, the Fed post “would be Rubin??s job for the asking—if Rubin wants it,” Henderson says. But the former Goldman Sachs chief does not have a Ph.D. in economics, and “he may not want to roll up his sleeves and muck around in the data for 14 years”—the length of each of the appointed Fed board member’s terms. In that event, a Democratic president might try to curry Rubin??s favor by appointing Summers...