Robert Rubin’s Legacy Up for Debate 10 Years After Citigroup Bailout - WSJ

Robert Rubin’s Legacy Up for Debate 10 Years After Citigroup Bailout

Once deemed by Bill Clinton to be the ‘greatest secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton’

Robert Rubin, a former Treasury secretary, was on the board at Citigroup for nearly a decade in the run-up to the financial crisis, when the bank needed a bailout.

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A decade after the financial crisis, The Wall Street Journal has checked in on dozens of the bankers, government officials, chief executives, hedge-fund managers and others who left a mark on that period to find out what they are doing now. Today, we spotlight Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and former Citigroup executive and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.

These days, Robert Rubin travels the think-tank circuit warning about the risks of future fiscal crises. Yet 10 years ago, the former Treasury secretary was among those who missed the one on his own turf.

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