How Selfish is Robert Rubin?
Robert Kuttner has nothing nice to say about Robert Rubin, and that makes Brad DeLong angry. I think DeLong is right, here. Kuttner does seem to be saying, in DeLong's words, that "Rubin is a devious, self-interested plutocrat" – whereas in fact Rubin is a straightforward and transparent plutocrat who raised taxes on his own class (the rich) and who also engineered economic and financial policies which made his own class even richer.
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