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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If you want to learn WHY Bill and Hillary Clinton are so close to Wall Street... [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)23. That is the feeling from learning this stuff.
Looking back now, the reasons why become crystal clear. And it also is interesting to see how amazingly LITTLE follow up there was on this article's main points over the last 23 years by the nation's news media -- which shrank in number as they grew in size to a handful beholden only to money and its owners.
Most importantly: You are most welcome, closeupready! Thank you for grokking why knowing matters for Democracy.
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If you want to learn WHY Bill and Hillary Clinton are so close to Wall Street... [View all]
Octafish
Mar 2016
OP
K&R....but...but...it's 'so 90's...' - the statutes of realization have apparently expired...
islandmkl
Mar 2016
#3
the role of Glass-Steagal in the economic crash as been debunked by both sides repeatedly. nt
Jitter65
Mar 2016
#6
pretty much the same trajectory for me. "the bell can't be unrung" <-- totally.
nashville_brook
Mar 2016
#21
Ms. Clinton was paid $225,000 by UBS to speak to the Wealth Management department on July 11, 2013.
Octafish
Apr 2016
#38
That was a walk down Memory Lane; Hillary's "commodities trading profits" were from that era
BernieforPres2016
Mar 2016
#25
President Obama thought this way once. He resisted using a Super PAC in 2012.
Trust Buster
Mar 2016
#28
Obama's Big Sellout: The President has Packed His Economic Team with Wall Street Insiders
Octafish
Apr 2016
#42
Willie Sutton (criminal) is alleged to have said (but he denied it): He robbed banks because
NCjack
Mar 2016
#30