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Robert Rubin

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Robert Rubin · Economics & Business

What

US Secretary of the Treasury 1995-1999; steered the response to the Mexican and Asian financial crises and the return to budget surplus

When

29 August 1938, New York City, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Robert Rubin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — US Secretary of the Treasury 1995-1999; steered the response to the Mexican and Asian financial crises and the return to budget surplus

How & why

Robert Rubin was born in New York to Jewish parents, Sylvia and Alexander Rubin. After twenty-six years at Goldman Sachs he became Bill Clinton's first National Economic Council director and then Secretary of the Treasury, where he handled the Mexican peso rescue of 1995 and the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 and presided over the first federal budget surpluses in a generation. He later co-chaired the Council on Foreign Relations.

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US Secretary of the Treasury 1995-1999; steered the response to the Mexican and Asian financial crises and the return to budget surplus

1995

Source: Wikipedia — Robert Rubin