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Robert Rubin Still Doesn't Get It

The former Treasury secretary leaves Citigroup oblivious to the fact that it's imploding because of the very policies he championed in government.

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Robert Rubin still doesn’t get it. The former Treasury secretary may have been credited—rightly or wrongly—with the economic boom during the later Clinton years, but ever since he left Washington he’s better known for enabling one of the largest catastrophes in modern financial history, the implosion of financial giant Citigroup.

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