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Just How Cozy Is Hillary Clinton With Wall Street?
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Just How Cozy Is Hillary Clinton With Wall Street? (Original Post)
kennetha
Feb 2016
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In One Paragraph, Why Liberal Dems Are Skeptical of Hillary (Hill's banker speeches)
RiverLover
Feb 2016
#4
daleanime
(17,796 posts)1. Right.....sure.......
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)2. This is an apologist piece for her bankruptcy bill flip flop
In essence, she was against the bill because it didn't prioritize alimony and child support. Then it did, so she supported it.
Trouble is, the bankruptcy law didn't need reforming. Banks pushed for the bill so they could choke more money out of the poor and middle class.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)3. Something in the air on Planet Bozone?
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)4. In One Paragraph, Why Liberal Dems Are Skeptical of Hillary (Hill's banker speeches)
But Clinton offered a message that the collected plutocrats found reassuring, according to accounts offered by several attendees, declaring that the banker-bashing so popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish. Striking a soothing note on the global financial crisis, she told the audience, in effect: We all got into this mess together, and were all going to have to work together to get out of it. What the bankers heard her to say was just what they would hope for from a prospective presidential candidate: Beating up the finance industry isnt going to improve the economyit needs to stop. And indeed Goldmans Jim ONeill, the laconic Brit who heads the banks asset management division, introduced Clinton by saying how courageous she was for speaking at the bank. (Brave, perhaps, but also well-compensated: Clintons minimum fee for paid remarks is $200,000).
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/why-liberal-democrats-are-skeptical-of-hillary-clinton-in-one-paragraph/282304/