In an Uncertain World

Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington

By: Jacob Weisberg,Robert E. Rubin

robert rubin was sworn in as the seventieth u.s. secretary of the treasury in january 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. as soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with president bill clinton on the financial crisis in mexico. this was not only a harbinger of things to come during what would prove to be a rocky period in the global...