Archive for November 29th, 2008

The Seventy-Year-Old Teenager

Andy Spero | November 29, 2008 | 0 Comment(s) |

The Curious Case of Robert Rubin

The weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal has a front page interview with Robert Rubin: Rubin, Under Fire, Defends His Role at Citi.

We’ve criticized Citi’s board in the (recent) past, and we’re still particularly fixated on the fact that few directors had financial industry experience.  That seems neither wise nor even prudent for a financial institution with over $3,000,000,000,000 of assets.  (That’s $3 trillion, but we like to write it out for effect, because it seems like a lot of money.)

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