What, was Robert Rubin not available? It's no wonder the US gets shafted so badly by the banks when the President and Treasury is so chummy with that crowd:
One of President Obama's golfing buddies Monday was a top donor to his campaign and the president of a bank at the center of a U.S. investigation into illegal tax shelters.This does explain a few mysteries about the soft handling of the banks who trashed our global economy.
Robert Wolf, the president of UBS Americas, a Swiss-based bank, joined Obama at the elite, and difficult, Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs. Deputy press secretary Bill Burton described the two men as "friends."
