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Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
Random House
September 2004
On Sale: September 7, 2004
448 pages ISBN: 0375757309 EAN: 9780375757303 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary
of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended
only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the
ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with
President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico.
This was not only a harbinger of things to come during what
would prove to be a rocky period in the global economy; it
also captured the essence of Rubin himself--short on
formality, quick to get into the nitty-gritty. From his early years in the storied arbitrage department at
Goldman Sachs to his current position as chairman of the
executive committee of Citigroup, Robert Rubin has been a
major figure at the center of the American financial system.
He was a key player in the longest economic expansion in
U.S. history. With In an Uncertain World, Rubin offers a
shrewd, keen analysis of some of the most important events
in recent American history and presents a clear, consistent
approach to thinking about markets and dealing with the new
risks of the global economy. Rubin's fundamental philosophy is that nothing is provably
certain. Probabilistic thinking has guided his career in
both business and government. We see that discipline at work
in meetings with President Clinton and Hillary Clinton,
Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, Alan Greenspan, Lawrence
Summers, Newt Gingrich, Sanford Weill, and the late Daniel
Patrick Moynihan. We see Rubin apply it time and again while
facing financial crises in Asia, Russia, and Brazil; the
federal government shutdown; the rise and fall of the stock
market; the challenges of the post-September 11 world; the
ongoing struggle over fiscal policy; and many other
momentous economic and political events. With a compelling and candid voice and a sharp eye for
detail, Rubin portrays the daily life of the White
House-confronting matters both mighty and mundane--as
astutely as he examines the challenges that lie ahead for
the nation. Part political memoir, part prescriptive
economic analysis, and part personal look at business
problems, In an Uncertain World is a deep examination of
Washington and Wall Street by a figure who for three decades
has been at the center of both worlds.
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