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David Mark Rubenstein (born August 11, 1949) is an American lawyer, businessman, and philanthropist. A former government official, he is a co-founder and co-chairman of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group, a global private equity investment company based in Washington, D.C.

Rubenstein is the chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Gallery of Art, the Council on Foreign Relations, and The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. He is the former chairman of the Duke University Board of Trustees and the Smithsonian Institution. In 2022, he became chair of the University of Chicago’s Board of Trustees. According to Forbes, Rubenstein has a net worth of US$3.2 billion as of December 2022.

Early life and education
Rubenstein grew up as an only child in a modest Jewish family in Baltimore. His father was employed by the United States Postal Service and his mother was a homemaker. He graduated from the college preparatory high school Baltimore City College, an all-male school at the time. He then attended Duke University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1970. He earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1973, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.”

Rubenstein has said that he was once offered the opportunity to meet Mark Zuckerberg (and invest in Facebook) before he dropped out of Harvard but decided against it, and this is his single greatest investment regret. Rubenstein also said that he turned down a 20% stake in Amazon during the very early years of the company. He told Amazon founder Jeff Bezos that if he got lucky and everything worked out he would at most be worth $300 million.

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Rubinstein is a self-made man, and has risen to the level of a junior oligarch. If you look at his fellow directors and senior staff of the Carlyle Group, you see people of a similar stripe, high achievers with strong academic backgrounds. I am confident that none of them are MAGA supporters, and are likely either liberal Democrats or moderate Republicans. (But surprisingly, Rubinstein's wife, Alice Rogoff, chaired Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign.) Perhaps a few of them flirted with Objectivism while in college, but outgrew that. They are mostly white, of mixed ethnicities, with about one third women. No evidence of senior officers from a "blue blood" Northeastern WASP background. Judging by surnames, there are a few Jews, but they do not predominate. Many of the directors and senior officers have strong academic achievement records.

The Carlyle Group is more emblematic of the American ruling class than what conspiracists conceive of. Those who desire a thorough overthrow of the established order must realize institutions like the Carlyle Group are far more an obstacle than the Uniparty or even black ops run by the FBI or other Federal or nonprofit agencies.