Robert Rubin

Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin talks to Charlie Rose and Erica Hill about the coming "fiscal cliff" - when Bush-era tax cuts and extended unemployment benefits run out, and the automatic budget kicks in, unless Congress takes action.

The Power Lunch team take a look at Harvard's All-Star economic team, which includes such notables as, Robert Rubin, Ben Bernanke, Steve Ballmer, Philip Falccone, Barry Bausano, and Jeremy Lin.

Robert Gates has become the only Secretary of Defense to stay on during a rival party’s administration and found himself leading two wars for President Barack Obama. Time’s Elizabeth Rubin discusses.

Robert Gates has become the only Secretary of Defense to stay on during a rival party’s administration and found himself leading two wars for President Barack Obama. Time’s Elizabeth Rubin discusses.

In a leaked memo released Sunday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressed concern over the lack of an effective U.S. strategy for dealing with Iran. AEI Middle East Scholar Michael Rubin weighs in. Plus; CBS News' Marc Ambinder with this week's buzzworthy 2010 elections. And; behind the scenes with Sen. Scott Brown on "Face The Nation".

Anthony Mason reports that Citibank's former CEO, Charles Prince, and former board chairman, Robert Rubin, appeared before a congressional panel where both apologized for not foreseeing the recession.

I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. Burdened with an ever-expanding government and military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, and debts to foreign countries that are becoming impossible to honor, America must mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions. Throughout history, the American government has found it nearly impossible to spend only what has been raised through taxes. Wielding candid interviews with both average American taxpayers and government officials, Sundance veteran Patrick Creadon (Wordplay) helps demystify the nation s financial practices and policies. The film follows former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker as he crisscrosses the country explaining America s unsustainable fiscal policies to its citizens. With surgical precision, Creadon interweaves archival footage and economic data to paint a vivid and alarming profile of America s current economic situation. The ultimate power of I.O.U.S.A. is that the film moves beyond doomsday rhetoric to proffer potential financial scenarios and propose solutions about how we can recreate a fiscally sound nation for future generations. Creadon uses candid interviews and his featured subjects include Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan, Paul O Neill, Robert Rubin, and Paul Volcker, along with the Peter G. Peterson Foundation s own David Walker and Bob Bixby of the Concord Coalition, a Foundation grantee. Pointedly topical and consummately nonpartisan, I.O.U.S.A. drives home the message that the only time for America s financial future is now.