All of that rhetoric has mattered little to Wall Street.
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One of the biggest takeaways to the chat was the fact Clinton did it at all.
The cash flow may not make Clinton’s policies any easier on banks.
Clinton wasn’t the only candidate who shied away from attacks on fellow members of the Democratic party. She also offered glimpses of what it’s like to get ready each morning and where she likes to go in Arkansas, and took shots at some of her Republican rivals on immigration. “Even so, she continues to have strong support within the financial community”.
Although particulars of the plan have but to be finalized, it might create a sliding fee scale based mostly on the size of an investment, fairly than treating all belongings held over a yr as “long run”, an aide with the Democratic candidate’s marketing campaign stated.
The state chair for the Democratic Party Vincent Insalaco said that the presidential hopeful has a few topics she is going to focus on during her campaign.
“Black lives matter”, Clinton wrote in response to a question by Washington Post journalist Wesley Lowery.
Under current law, whistleblower awards are capped at $1.6 million. JPMorgan, Goldman and Citi were among her top five donors.
In announcing her economic platform in New York, Clinton called some of the financial institutions led by her top contributors “too complex and too risky”.
“Trickle-down economics has to be one of the worst ideas of the 1980s”, Clinton said, evoking Republican policy from the Reagan era. Though the gap has closed in recent weeks, Clinton holds a cushion over Vermont Sen. The white working class may be out of the Democrats’ reach in most of the states of the Deep South (Obama won only 11 percent of its ballots in Alabama and 10 percent in Mississippi), but it is vital elsewhere. The credit would phase out for high-income employees, and the per-firm size of the total credit would be capped.
“Black lives matter. Everyone in this country should stand firmly behind that”, she said. So far, he’s refused to criticize Clinton directly, though he edged closer to an attack Friday, questioning whether she would back the kind of tough regulation on Wall Street that’s becoming a rallying call for liberals.
Clinton’s campaign played down possible backlash from large Wall Street contributions. The vast majority of those checks were for the maximum legal amount of $2,700. These aren’t just women’s issues, they are economic issues that drive growth and affect all Americans.
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“She is someone who has had success in the past in people wanting to work with her, people who had been politically not aligned with her, I would say, to put it mildly, particularly during her husband’s administration”, said campaign communications boss Jennifer Palmieri. Bernie Sanders’ frustration with the protesters, Clinton took advantage of that hindsight and the more cautious medium.
