Education
Rubin completed his Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University of Toronto before graduating from McGill University with a Masters in Economics.
Rubin completed his Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University of Toronto before graduating from McGill University with a Masters in Economics.
Foreign the CollegeHumor editor, writer, and actor named Jeff Rubin, see CollegeHumor. He is a former chief economist at World Markets. Rubin had worked at World Markets and its predecessors since 1988, and served as chief economist from 1992 to 2009, when he resigned.
He began working as an economist at the Ontario Government Treasury Department where he was responsible for projecting future interest rates.
In 1988, Rubin moved on to the brokerage firm Wood Gundy which was taken over by and became first Wood Gundy and then World Markets. He has accurately predicted fluctuations in interest rates and the value of the Canadian dollar.
In the early 1990s he came to prominence projecting a major decline in the Ontario real estate market. He was one of the first economists to accurately predict soaring oil prices in 2000 and is now a popular commentator on oil depletion and its economic repercussions.