The Washington Post (12/11/92) reported on Clinton's economic team in an article headlined
"Clinton Appointees Form a Collage of Varying Economic Views." The piece claimed that Clinton's administration would be a "tent big enough to accomodate a wide variety of viewpoints.",...
How wide are the viewpoints represented? The article cites Lloyd Bentsen, an "old-time wheeler-dealer" who supports "tax incentives" for business; Rep. Leon Panetta and the Brookings Institution's Alice Rivlin, who are described as "deficit hawks"; and
investment bankers Robert Rubin and Roger Altman, who are said to provide "real world imput."
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If you're in favor of any of these things, you're represented," says Reagan administration official William Seidman--referring to tax cuts for big business, cutting government programs
or having economic policy set by investment bankers.
Robert Edward Rubin is the Chairman of Citigroup.He served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during both the first and second Clinton Administrations.,... He sparked controversy in 2001 when he contacted an acquaintance at the Treasury Department and asked if the department could convince bond-rating agencies not to downgrade the corporate debt of Enron, a debtor of Citigroup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rubin
Roger Altman is an investment banker and former United States Deputy Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton. ,.. a general partner of Lehman Brothers,.. Mr. Altman joined the Blackstone Group as vice-chairman, head of merger and acquisition advisory and a member of the investment committee.,.. as the Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury, before resigning in 1994 because of a record-keeping scandal
,... Evercore Partners NYSE: EVR is a boutique investment bank and private equity investment firm located in New York. It was founded by Blackstone Group Austin Beutner and Roger Altman in 1996,...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Altman