Robert Rubin, Who Made a Fortune on the Housing Bubble, and Wanted the Fed to Raise Interest Rates When the Unemployment Rate Was Over 6.0 Percent, Is Concerned About the Social Determinants of Health

Most people probably know of Robert Rubin as the person who thought deregulating finance and having a huge housing bubble was cool. They may also know that he hugely profited from the bubble personally as a top executive at Citigroup, a bank that was at the center of the bubble's finance and would have gone bankrupt in the crash, had it not been for a massive government bailout.

They may also know Robert Rubin as the person who pushed for an over-valued dollar, which led to a huge trade defic...