2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary knows how to break up the big banks.
She's already started doing it, $225k at a time.
rickford66
(5,523 posts)iandhr
(6,852 posts)... she actually has a specific plan to reform wall street and Sanders doesn't.
"Break up the banks." I agree. What is your plan for doing so is a reasonable followup question. The fact that he couldn't answer when first asked is troubling.
thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)When the government says that something must be broken up (as they have done in the past with monopolies), it is not up to the government to decide *how* that breakup is to be done. The company is supposed to come up with their own plan that they think will address the concerns, submit that plan to the government, and then the government can approve it (or not, if they think it does not adequately address the concern). It is not the job of the government to create the plan. So Sanders is exactly right in the interview, when his answer to exactly how they would be broken up was:
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Red Oak
(697 posts)Give me another $250,000.