Experts
David Rubenstein
Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Bush's legacy will be intimately tied to the war in Iraq. Read More
America has a schizophrenic relationship with foreign direct investment.
There is a new chase for global wealth, says Rubinstein.
We all want the same thing, Rubinstein says: a happy, comfortable life.
The rich should recycle their money, Rubinstein says, but they can't change the world.
American citizens give away more of their money than anyone else in the world. Read More
We're all basically the same, says Rubinstein.
How much economic influence does China have?
Rubenstein thinks we should simplify the tax code. Read More
Rubinstein discusses what this might mean for the industry.
Where did the housing crisis start?
David Rubinstein talks about why he founded Carlyle.
Growing up Jewish in a non-too-friendly Baltimore.
About David Rubenstein
David M. Rubenstein is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms. Mr. Rubenstein co-founded the firm in 1987. Since then, Carlyle has grown into a firm managing more than $85 billion from 29 offices around the world. Prior to co-founding Carlyle in 1987, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in New York, with the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; served as deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy in the Carter administration; and practiced law in Washington, D.C., with the firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge. Mr. Rubenstein is a member of the Board of Directors of The Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute for International Economics and Freedom House; the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Dance Theatre of Harlem; and a member of the Visiting Committee of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the National Advisory Committee of J.P. Morgan Chase. He is based in Washington, DC.