HILLARY’S GOLDMAN PROBLEM = SHE IS NO ELIZABETH WARREN
Clinton policy speech at New America Foundation talked about the financial plight of Americans who “are still barely getting by, barely holding on, not seeing the rewards that they believe their hard work should have merited.”
Clinton bemoaned Top 0.01% have a GILDED AGE Slice of America’s wealth
Clinton speech = Cited projects Bill, Hillary, & Chelsea Clinton Foundation addressing economic inequality = Cloning rhetoric of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) = test-drivin a theme for 2016 presidential campaign = Sticking up for the little guy and trash-talking the economic elites.
Clinton decried the “shadow banking system that operated without accountability” and caused the financial crisis that wiped out millions of jobs and the nest eggs, retirement funds, and college savings of families across the land.
Days later 3 Clintons held a daylong DONORS confab for their foundation at Goldman’s HQ. = A key part of the “shadow banking system” in housing SCAM that dashed the DREAMS of America’s middle class. = Result of Bill Clinton’s 2 major deregulation laws in 1999 removing Glass-Steagall safety & Derivatives.
GOLDMAN = One of the robber barons of Wall Street = 2011 Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report = Expert concluded that Goldman practices had “multiplied the effects of the collapse in [the] subprime” mortgage market that set off the wider financial implosion that nearly threw the nation into a depression.