OTOH take on Bob Rubin

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu May 13 07:44:53 PDT 1999


Carl Remick wrote:


>>From today's Salon:
>
>"But not everybody was mourning Rubin's departure. 'The dirty little
>secret of the Clinton administration is that the United States has
>increased its bond indebtedness by $2 trillion, and most of the policies
>that led to this were backed by Rubin,' said Doug Henwood, founder of
>the influential Left Business Observer.'"
>
>"Influential," no less!

Yeah I laughed out loud when I read that.

I didn't say "increased its bond indebtedness by $2 trillion"; I said "increased its net foreign debt by $2 trillion during the 1990s," but, hey, at least they spelled my name right.

Doug



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