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investor: DC needs to stop bickering   AP Markets Writer Sunday,
November 10, 2013 Click image to enlarge  AP photo In this Dec.
19, 2011 file photo, David M. Rubenstein, right, co-founder and
managing director of The Carlyle Group, takes part in a news
conference in Washington.  NEW YORK -- David Rubenstein gave
millions to repair the Washington Monument after a 2011
earthquake left cracks in the stone obelisk.  He hopes a
fractured Congress can fix itself after nearly collapsing the
economy.  Rubenstein, co-founder of the Washington, D.C-based
private equity firm Carlyle Group, says he was disappointed,
saddened and embarrassed by the partial government shutdown and
near-breach of the nation's borrowing limit.  Rubenstein may not
be a household name, but in the world of philanthropy and
finance, he is a celebrity.  Rubenstein, 64, and two partners
co-founded Carlyle in 1987 with $5 million