FINANCE MINISTER OF THE YEARWhen Robert Rubin became treasury secretary in January 1995 he faced his first real test immediately: the escalating Mexico crisis. “It was a major thing to be confronted with, and it took a great deal of guts to react as quickly as he did under the gun,” says a former colleague from Rubin’s days on Wall Street. Rubin was at Goldman Sachs for 26 years before leaving in 1992 to become Bill Clinton’s chief economic adviser, directing the National Economic Council. |
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