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...precisely, does a retroactive tax cut give an incentive to future investment? Republicans say they are putting productive capacity into the hands of corporations that create jobs. Ford Motor Co. would be the biggest winner, getting a windfall of $2 billion. But as former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin told House and Senate leaders last month, "I'm on the board of Ford Motor Co. The problem is not a shortage of cars. The problem is a shortage of people to buy cars...
...tanks, artillery and air strikes that killed an estimated 10,000 civilians, drove hundreds of thousands from their homes and flattened wide swathes of the city. For Kabulis, the Taliban and the Alliance are both bad news. "Orderly oppression or chaotic violence: it's a tough choice," says Barnett Rubin, Afghanistan expert at New York University's Center for International Cooperation...
...private and informal one that has convened twice lately around the conference table in House Speaker Dennis Hastert's suite in the Capitol. The faces at the table include four other congressional leaders of both parties, White House economic adviser Larry Lindsey, Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. When they first met, eight days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Greenspan cautioned the group not to rush to revive the economy until they had time to measure the full effect of the tragedy. But last Wednesday, participants told TIME, the Fed chief brought...
Another old friend—Summers’ predecessor as Secretary of the Treasury, Robert E. Rubin ’60—said he was impressed by Summers’ speech...
...Rubin, whose lobbying was vital to getting Summers the spot, said, “It was Larry—smart, thoughtful, good sense of humor...