Rubinovi kritičari u Bijeloj kući počeli su govoriti da se iza pomoći kriju i druge namjere, da se tu djelomično radi o spasu zapadnjačkih investitora, a ne tih zemalja.
Rubin's critics in the White House began to argue that there was another agenda also at work in the bail-outs - that part of their real function was to rescue the western investors, not the countries.