From the executive editor.(CORRESPONDENCE)
American Prospect, The, April, 2007 by Meyerson, Harold
FOR DEMOCRATIC POLITICOS, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES most especially, all roads lead to Robert Rubin. The former Clinton treasury secretary bestrides the summit of power and wisdom, commending those Democrats he considers fiscally sound to Wall Street's mega-donors, while commending his own Wall Street perspectives--free trade and balanced budgets are his holies of holies--to the Democrats.
Problem is, as our founding co-editor Robert Kuttner documents in our cover story, what Rubin is selling is neither good politics nor good economics, nor even very disinterested. How, Kuttner ...
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