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Hillary Clinton vows to crack down on big bad Wall Street firms with new proposals
nydailynews.com ^ | october 8, 2015 | cameron joseph

Posted on 10/09/2015 5:20:36 AM PDT by lowbridge

The proposals come just days before the first Democratic presidential debate Tuesday, and mark Clinton's latest leftward pivots as she looks to ward off a strong populist challenge from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Clinton wants to force firms that are "too large and too risky to be managed effectively to reorganize, downsize, or break apart," in the campaign's words, a move aimed at addressing "too big to fail" that echoes calls from lefties like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

She also wants to make sure that when people break the law they actually go to jail, something that rarely happened after the 2008 economic collapse.

"When people commit crimes on Wall Street, they will be prosecuted and imprisoned," the campaign declared.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; hillary; hillaryclinton; wallstreet
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1 posted on 10/09/2015 5:20:36 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

She will crack down on everybody but parasites and criminals. And that’s why her supporters like her.


2 posted on 10/09/2015 5:23:05 AM PDT by all the best
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To: lowbridge

They shouldn’t worry too much. All they have to do is give the Clinton Foundation a $10 or $20 million donation and her crackdown will quietly go away.


3 posted on 10/09/2015 5:23:26 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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how much money have those “big bad wall street firms” give toher campaign and the Clinton Foundation?

Really voters? Are you this stupid?


4 posted on 10/09/2015 5:28:22 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I have a right old laugh at the ‘daily mood’ and PR fluff that Palmieri et al come up with in their echo chamber.

If Hillary were an actress she wouldn’t get through 30 seconds of a read-through...’Thank you, we’ll be in touch.’

The media, as usual, are complicit in publicizing this as anything serious, effective, or sincere, given Hillary and the DNC in general’s arm-in-arm relationship with Wall Street.


5 posted on 10/09/2015 5:30:32 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: lowbridge

She is just a hair away from blaming all our problems on the Jews. What craziness.


6 posted on 10/09/2015 5:30:56 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son...)
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To: MNJohnnie

Really voters? Are you this stupid?


Never underestimate the power of government school education.


7 posted on 10/09/2015 5:31:39 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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Clinton wants to force firms that are "too large and too risky to be managed effectively to reorganize, downsize, or break apart,"

Let's start with the federal government

8 posted on 10/09/2015 5:32:49 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: all the best

In the past these attacks on Wall Street firms would be viewed with fear by their American workers; I’m shocked at how many have been replacing those American workers with foreigners anyway (primarily Asians). One reason for the decline of the NYC area is the job losses of Americans in those firms; many of the jobs that weren’t sent overseas had their American workers replaced with foreigners anyway.

This area is filled with foreclosed homes because all of those good-paying jobs are simply gone (in terms of American workers with mortgages).


9 posted on 10/09/2015 5:34:16 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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CORRECTION: Hillary Clinton vows to crack down on every big bad Wall Street firm which does not donate sufficient funds to "The Foundation"
10 posted on 10/09/2015 5:35:57 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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You beat me to it by 3 minutes. Well said...


11 posted on 10/09/2015 5:36:14 AM PDT by Russ (Repeal the '17th amendment.)
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To: lowbridge

She’s of course the wrong one to do it, but we should unwind some of our protections for humongous banks beyond our ability to reasonably back up.

The return of GS would be a possible start, but we really have to figure ways to keep our top banks competitive with the largest global banks, so we aren’t de facto forcing them to retreat from plum international and global markets.

That’ll take far more care and insight than Hill has ever had to offer on anything.


12 posted on 10/09/2015 5:41:03 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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She also wants to make sure that when people break the law they actually go to jail

OMG...Hell may not have frozen over but its awfully chilly: I AGREE with her.....

She can be in the first cell....


13 posted on 10/09/2015 5:44:04 AM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: lowbridge

I’m Hillaryous Rotten Criminal, I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.


14 posted on 10/09/2015 5:46:40 AM PDT by PGalt
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And does anybody believe this for a second? Puh-leeeeze. Hillary is so tight and completely owned by Wall Street and the big investment banks that whenever they say “Jump” she says “How high?”.


15 posted on 10/09/2015 5:47:51 AM PDT by circlecity
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Just as soon as she cashes the checks from them.


16 posted on 10/09/2015 6:00:23 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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My take on it. Big business donors have been a little slow to fork over the cash. She is seeing that she is going to need an even bigger war chest to help overcome her tremendous negatives... So a little not-so-veiled threat to these guys: get on board the Hillary train (with $$$) or I will try to make your lives hell.

Pretty standard tactic for thugs and criminals, and thus totally expected from a Clinton.

17 posted on 10/09/2015 6:03:27 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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Riiiiiiiight. Just like Obola threatened to.

Wall Street is being propped up by trillions of dollars of government spending.

Isn't it interesting how Wall Street was tanking in the last few weeks of September and then miraculously recovered after Congress passed a stop-gap spending measure.

That money runs out in the middle of December so be looking for a similar crash/recovery miracle.

18 posted on 10/09/2015 6:11:05 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: lowbridge

...and what about the media conglomerates?


19 posted on 10/09/2015 6:12:47 AM PDT by exPBRrat
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To: all the best

I don’t know how people don’t just break out in uncontrolled laughter every time she speaks about her positions. She is a walking contradiction.


20 posted on 10/09/2015 6:59:34 AM PDT by Skeptical constituent
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