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Showing Original Post only (View all)Wall Street worried Bernie Sanders' call for banking industry reform will pull Hillary to the left. [View all]
Banks brace for Bernie SandersWall Street is worried that Sen. Bernie Sanders' vigorous calls for banking industry reform will pull Hillary Clinton to the left, as the two presidential candidates battle for the 2016 Democratic nomination.
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/banking-financial-institutions/241693-banks-brace-for-bernie
Sanders (I-Vt.) last week unveiled new legislation designed to break up the nations largest banks, declaring that if an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
Though it stands virtually no chance of passage in the GOP-controlled Congress, the bill has industry leaders fretting.
The prospects of it becoming law are nil, said one banking lobbyist, who described Sanderss legislations as shrill, bombastic and misaligned.
But we care about whether this impacts Hillary and whether shell try to pander to the far left.
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Oh don't worry your little silly Wall Street bankster heads off, you know she will only be pandering to the left. It's just campaign blather. Nothing will ever come of it.
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Wall Street worried Bernie Sanders' call for banking industry reform will pull Hillary to the left. [View all]
L0oniX
May 2015
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They will fight him, the banks and most other lobbies..he is not their friend and they know his long
Jefferson23
May 2015
#10
If Hillary's advisors think it's important enough for her to don a populist costume
BrotherIvan
May 2015
#16
And this was before the TPA vote today. Watch your back banksters. The country is moving left.
jwirr
May 2015
#17
Like Water & Oil as philanthropist is to misanthrope . That should Elect him !
orpupilofnature57
May 2015
#26
Nah. More likely, they're worried Bernie's rhetoric will cause unrest among the peasants. n/t
winter is coming
May 2015
#32