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Robert Rubin Warns That the U.S. Is Failing to Face Its Problems In a new book, the former Treasury secretary offers lessons on risk, luck and the importance of learning from mistakes.

Robert E. Rubin (1995 - 1999) When President William Jefferson Clinton swore in Robert E. Rubin (b. 1938) as the 70th Secretary of the Treasury, he was already one of the most knowledgeable and best prepared leaders of finance t/p>o assume the office. Before entering public service, Secretary Rubin worked for twenty-six years at Goldman Sachs ...

Robert E. (Bob) Rubin served as the 70th Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from 1995 to 1999. He joined the Clinton Administration in 1993 as the first director of the National Economic Council. Rubin began his career in finance at Goldman, Sachs & Company in 1966, serving as co-senior partner and co-chairman from 1990 to 1992.

The Book That Changed Robert Rubin’s Thinking About Poverty. The former Treasury secretary, whose new book is “The Yellow Pad,” says that Ken Auletta’s “The Underclass” convinced him ...

For the 6 1/2 years he was in Washington–he tends to be very precise about that elapsed time–he lived like a bachelor at the Jefferson Hotel, flying to New York on weekends to rejoin his wife ...