Hedging on Wall Street: Clinton's Finance Reforms Reek of Weak-Kneed Populism
While offering new reforms for financial industry, few seem to think that presidential candidate would present any significant challenge to ruthlessness of the big banks
None of the proposals she has put forward so far appear close to the major crackdown on banking practices, financial loopholes and astronomical salaries favored by many liberals. [...] Eventually she will have to address issues of income inequality more directly, and to answer liberal demands for a specific proposal to raise then minimum wage.
Clinton’s own longstanding ties to Wall Street, both as a New York senator and two-time Democratic presidential contender, have made her suspect in the eyes of some of the Democratic Party’s most liberal voters. Those voters wield particular influence now, when they can point up the shortcomings of the Democratic front-runner by backing a competitor or withholding support.
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