Is Hillary Clinton an economic populist?
According to Wall Street Bankers the answer is clear: They ain’t buying her newfound populism.
William D. Cohan, author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, interviewed dozens of Wall Street’s leaders on their reaction to Clinton’s newfound populism:
Down on Wall Street they don’t believe it for a minute. While the finance industry does genuinely hate Warren, the big bankers love Clinton, and by and large they badly want her to be president. ... What about her forays into fiery rhetoric? They dismiss it quickly as political maneuvers. None of them think she really means her populism.
More recently, Camden Fine, head of the Independent Community Bankers of America, similarly discounted Clinton’s populist rhetoric: “She gonna all of a sudden become Mrs. Wall Street if she’s elected. So it’s all Bernie theatrics right now. She’s a Clinton, for God’s sake. What do you expect?”
Wall Street ain’t buying Clinton’s new found populism. I hope we don’t buy it either.
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