The Shell Game of the Economic Elite’s Hamilton Project
The think tank created 10 years ago by ruling-class maestro Robert Rubin (pictured above) at the Brookings Institution has helped define the fake-progressive, neoliberal essence of the Barack Obama presidency.

Robert Rubin. (Wikimedia Commons)
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