By Robert E. Rubin and Lawrence Summers

We were members of Bill Clinton’s economic team when the federal budget was balanced, the only time that has happened in more than half a century. In nearly every respect, the Trump administration’s approach is the opposite of what worked in the 1990s — and it poses huge risks to our economy.

By Robert E. Rubin

In the early 1990s, when I was a co-senior partner at Goldman Sachs, younger people sometimes asked me for advice. I told them, “First, become really good at what you do, and then branch out to get involved in activities and issues in the wider world beyond your work.” Widespread engagement is especially needed, and especially powerful, at a time when democracies like ours face threats from autocracies abroad and intense social and political strain at home.

By Robert E. Rubin

My advice to those new in government work is to approach the job with modesty. While government can benefit from a business perspective, government can’t and shouldn’t be run like a business. This is in part because government work requires skills and knowledge one doesn’t acquire in business.

By Robert E. Rubin and Kenneth I. Chenault

The two of us have been involved in business, government and policy for many years, with more than a century of experience between us. We’ve worked with elected officials and business leaders across the ideological spectrum. And we believe a straightforward assessment of Mr. Trump’s economic policy agenda — based on his public statements and on-the-record interviews, such as the one he recently conducted with Time magazine — leads to a clear conclusion. When it comes to economic policy, Mr. Trump is not a remotely normal candidate. A second Trump term would pose enormous risks to our economy.

By Robert E. Rubin

Transfixed by images of colleges and universities in turmoil, we risk overlooking the foundational role that higher education plays in American life. With its underlying principles of free expression and academic freedom, the university system is one of the nation’s great strengths. It is not to be taken for granted. Undermining higher education would harm all Americans, weakening our country and making us less able to confront the many challenges we face.

Interview on Bloomberg’s Wall Street Week

Robert Rubin, Former US Treasury Secretary, tells us what we can learn from the factors that influenced the Clinton administration to balance the federal budget in the 1990s.

By Robert E. Rubin

I discussed the equity market outlook for 2024 with several fellow advisers to an investment fund a few weeks ago. They were optimistic about the prospects of the U.S. economy achieving a soft landing. Like many Wall Street economists I speak to, they based their view on a conventional analysis of a range of economic factors, from Federal Reserve policy to consumer spending. I think the outlook is more complicated.

Interview on CNN’s Smerconish

Having learned in college that there are no certainties, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin realized that people need "to try to identify a number of possibilities, and then try to make judgments of the probabilities of each of those materializing."

Bloomberg Businessweek

The book is full of valuable lessons in thinking, decision-making, history and other topics gleaned from the author’s remarkable career experiences in dealing with uncertainty.

By Robert E. Rubin and Rob Portman

The Barrister Apartments in downtown Cincinnati, slated to open early next year, are a housing policy success story. Financed with federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, it is the first investment in affordable housing in the city’s central business district in more than two decades.

By Robert E. Rubin

Robert Rubin has led both the US Treasury and Goldman Sachs, which gives him a rare perspective on interactions between the financial and political systems. His recent book The Yellow Pad lays out his approach to thinking and decision-making, drawing on those and other experiences from his life and career.

By Robert E. Rubin, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, and Michael Froman

In a conversation with two of his former chiefs of staff, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin discusses his decision-making process and how policymakers should think about economic issues including the national debt, trade, and inflation.

Q&A with Bob Davis and Robert E. Rubin

The Clinton-era Treasury Secretary and banker discusses why investors should steer away from China and the issues with linking trade and human rights.

Fareed Zakaria, GPS

Clinton's former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin talks to Fareed about the benefits, costs and risks of decision-making - and what a yellow legal pad has to do with it.

By Robert E. Rubin

The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. Chairman David Rubenstein interviewed Robert E. Rubin, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs, and author of the recently published book The Yellow Pad: Making Better Decisions in an Uncertain World.

By Robert E. Rubin and Hank Paulson

From growing up in the Midwest to leading Goldman Sachs and then serving his country as Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson offers a unique point of view and a life experience unlike many Americans. With Straight Talk, Hank brings this experience to his conversations with the world’s prominent leaders and thinkers, exchanging a lifetime of stories and lessons from both the private and public sectors. Each episode reveals compelling viewpoints, topical discussion, and behind-the-scenes stories.

By The New York Times

The former Treasury secretary, whose new book is “The Yellow Pad,” says that Ken Auletta’s “The Underclass” convinced him that “trying to break the cycle of poverty through policy and through private efforts is not just right for moral reasons, but is enormously in the interest of all.”

By Robert E. Rubin

Robert Rubin speaks with CNN's Bianna Golodryga about decision-making, fiscal policy, banking, and the U.S. and global economies at the Council on Foreign Relations Robert B. Menschel Economics Symposium.

By Robert E. Rubin

By now the scenario is familiar, but at the time it was unprecedented: House Republicans, having recently won a majority in the midterm elections, threatened to force the United States to default on its debt unless a Democratic president acceded to their demands.

By Robert E. Rubin

Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, author of the new book "The Yellow Pad," and, perhaps most important, veteran of the debt ceiling wars, offers a commentary about this past week's debt ceiling showdown in Washington.