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In NYT Op-Ed, Hillary Lays Out How She'd "Rein In Wall Street" (And No, Not By Demanding Even More Donations)

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When it comes to Hillary's relationship with Wall Street, one does not need to dig deep at all: the answer is laid out for all to see on Senator Clinton's career fundraising page:

 

So when the same Hillary Clinton, in her latest populist push to present herself as "one of the people" wrote a NYT op-ed overnight explaining "How I'd Rein In Wall Street", we were wondering if it would include draining Wall Street balance sheets with mandatory and far greater donations to her campaign by Wall Street firms - a strategy that may actually work as it hits banks where it hurts the most: their money.

It could also be a very functional and efficient way for the Fed to drain bank excess reserves without having to bother with IOER rates, reverse repos and/or prayer.

To our disappointment, this was not included.

Instead, what followed was the usual trite catalog of Republican-bashing ("Republicans may have decided to forget about the financial crisis that caused so much devastation — but I haven’t") throughout which, sadly, the presidential candidate appears to have forgotten that it was the Democratic administration's Attorney General Eric Holder who over two years ago admitted that "some banks are so large that it is difficult for us to prosecute them."

Hillary's retort: "executives need to be held more accountable. No one should be too big to jail." And somehow that is the republicans' fault.

And then, let's not forget, this:

Oddly enough, no comment on how "to Corzine" became part of the vernacular.

The remainder of the Op-Ed is just the usual fare from Hillary when it comes to "regulating" the group that represents her biggest and most generous donors. Fluff.

The full Hillary Clinton NYT oped:

How I'd Rein In Wall Street

SEVEN years ago, the financial crisis sent our economy into a tailspin. Over five million people lost their homes. Nearly nine million lost their jobs. Nearly $13 trillion in household wealth was wiped out.

Under President Obama, our economy has come a long way back. Our businesses have created more than 13 million jobs. People’s savings are being restored. And we have tough new rules on the books, including the Dodd-Frank Act, that protect consumers and curb recklessness on Wall Street.

But not everyone sees that as a good thing. Republicans, both in Congress and on the campaign trail, are dead-set on rolling back critical financial protections.

Right now, Republicans in Congress are working to attach damaging deregulation riders to the must-pass spending bill. They’re attempting to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They want to roll back common-sense efforts to prevent conflicts of interest by financial managers. And they’re trying to undo constraints on risk at some of the largest and most complex financial institutions.

President Obama and congressional Democrats should do everything they can to stop these efforts. But it’s not enough simply to protect the progress we have made. As president, I would not only veto any legislation that would weaken financial reform, but I would also fight for tough new rules, stronger enforcement and more accountability that go well beyond Dodd-Frank.

My comprehensive plan has already won praise from progressives like Sherrod Brown and Barney Frank. Here’s what it would do.

First, we need to further rein in major financial institutions. My plan proposes legislation that would impose a new risk fee on dozens of the biggest banks — those with more than $50 billion in assets — and other systemically important financial institutions to discourage the kind of hazardous behavior that could induce another crisis. I would also ensure that the federal government has — and is prepared to use — the authority and tools necessary to reorganize, downsize and ultimately break up any financial institution that is too large and risky to be managed effectively. No bank or financial firm should be too big to manage.

My plan would strengthen the Volcker Rule by closing the loopholes that still allow banks to make speculative gambles with taxpayer-backed deposits. And I would fight to reinstate the rules governing risky credit swaps and derivatives at taxpayer-backed banks, which were repealed during last year’s budget negotiations after a determined lobbying campaign by the banks.

My plan also goes beyond the biggest banks to include the whole financial sector. Some have urged the return of a Depression-era rule called Glass-Steagall, which separated traditional banking from investment banking. But many of the firms that contributed to the crash in 2008, like A.I.G. and Lehman Brothers, weren’t traditional banks, so Glass-Steagall wouldn’t have limited their reckless behavior. Nor would restoring Glass-Steagall help contain other parts of the “shadow banking” sector, including certain activities of hedge funds, investment banks and other non-bank institutions. My plan would strengthen oversight of these activities, too — increasing leverage and liquidity requirements for broker-dealers and imposing strict margin requirements on the kinds of short-term borrowing that also played a major role in spurring the financial crisis. We need to tackle excessive risk wherever it lurks, not just in the banks.

Second, I would appoint tough, independent regulators and ensure that both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are independently funded — as other critical regulators are now — so that they can do their jobs without political interference. I would seek to impose a tax on harmful high-frequency trading, which makes markets less stable and less fair. And we need to reform stock market rules to ensure equal access to information, increase transparency and minimize conflicts of interest.

Finally, executives need to be held more accountable. No one should be too big to jail. I would seek to extend the statute of limitations for major financial crimes to 10 years from five and enhance rewards for whistle-blowers. I would work to ensure that financial firms admit wrongdoing as part of settlements in instances of egregious misconduct, and increase transparency about the terms of settlement and the fines actually paid to the government. Fines should be more than just the cost of doing business to these companies — they should be an effective disincentive for illegal behavior.

And it shouldn’t just be shareholders and taxpayers who feel the pain when banks make bad decisions; executives should have skin in the game. When a firm pays a fine, I would make sure that the penalty cuts into executives’ bonuses, too. And I would fight to close the carried interest loophole that gives some fund managers billions of dollars in tax breaks: They should be taxed like every other citizen.

Republicans may have decided to forget about the financial crisis that caused so much devastation — but I haven’t. The proper role of Wall Street is to help Main Street grow and prosper. When our financial sector works the right way, it helps families buy their first homes, entrepreneurs start and grow small businesses and hardworking Americans save for retirement. Rather than pursuing the kind of high-stakes speculation that devastated our economy before, Wall Street should focus on building an economy that creates good-paying jobs, rising incomes and sound investments so that more families can achieve the security of a middle-class life.

 

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Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:42 | 6887876 order66
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I call bullshit.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:44 | 6887886 Truther
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Hillary is a fucking cunt.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:45 | 6887896 SethDealer
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we're going from president coon to president skank

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:19 | 6887971 hedgeless_horseman
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She'd "Rein In Wall Street"

So, even lower margins requirements and commissions for politicians and their wives trading cattle futures?

Hillary Rodham Clinton was allowed to order 10 cattle futures contracts, normally a $12,000 investment, in her first commodity trade in 1978 although she had only $1,000 in her account at the time, according to trade records the White House released yesterday.

 

The computerized records of her trades, which the White House obtained from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, show for the first time how she was able to turn her initial investment into $6,300 overnight. In about 10 months of trading, she made nearly $100,000, relying heavily on advice from her friend James B. Blair, an experienced futures trader.

 

The new records also raise the possibility that some of her profits -- as much as $40,000 – came from larger trades ordered by someone else and then shifted to her account, Leo Melamed, a former chairman of the Merc who reviewed the records for the White House, said in an interview. He said the discrepancies in Clinton's records also could have been caused by human error.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery

Bribery is the act of giving money, goods or other forms of recompense to a recipient in exchange for an alteration of their behavior (to the benefit/interest of the giver) that the recipient would otherwise not alter. Bribery is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official or other person in charge of a public or legal duty.

 

Vote Bush (again) or Clinton (again) in '16

Red Team / Blue Team

Same League Ownership

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:32 | 6888131 38BWD22
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Hillary rein in Wall Street?

Bwa ha ha !!

Her biggest lie yet?

Ick.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:58 | 6888614 redpill
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Hillary-Corzine for Prison 2016!  Forward!

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:33 | 6888141 G.O.O.D
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Oh my grace, I've got no hiding place.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:48 | 6888216 OldPhart
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Paging Sirhan Sirhan...please answer the white courtesy phone.  Paging Sirhan Sirhan...please answer the white courtesy phone.  Paging Sirhan Sirhan...please answer the white courtesy phone.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 21:26 | 6891169 dogbert8
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Yes, we are; she's a shoo in, sadly.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:53 | 6887940 pods
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She is not even a classy whore, like the girls in the old western movies. At least you could empathize with them.

She is just a nasty whore.

Speaking of nobody is too big to go to jail..........................

pods

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:56 | 6887954 Sages wife
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I think she's dryhumping him

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:00 | 6887956 JRobby
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Will she reign in derivatives? (laugh track deafening, picture of Bill up in lights)

When the tail wags the dog, the dog crashes.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:02 | 6887985 nmewn
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Yeah, pretty much.

What better way to say to Wall Street "You better start paying up now sucka's!" than an Op-Ed in the NYT's? ;-)

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:34 | 6888144 38BWD22
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Yep.  Truf dere.

Who are the morons downvoting you?  Must be the same ones who downvote me...

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:34 | 6888147 A Nanny Moose
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Is it really a donation if you are threatened?

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:58 | 6887962 Pliskin
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Nah, a cunt's useful.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:39 | 6888172 Stroke
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That's one yenta even Corzine wouldn't shtoop.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 15:22 | 6889017 maxamus
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I don't think her cunt has been fucked in a very long time.  

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:48 | 6887917 firstdivision
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Hey now, her husband was only partially responsible for the final nail in the Glass-Steagall coffin.  Surely she isn't like her husband and son-in-law.....

 

I weep for this country.  No real viable options as a true Presidental candidate.  Its now a choice between a closet whore (H)  or open whore (T).  My god, what have we become in the last 10 years..and thats my lifetime. 

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:03 | 6887992 JRobby
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Only the last 10? (laugh track deafening, cut to video of 6 battalions marching with lit flame throwers in hand)

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:31 | 6888125 Das Capitalist
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Rein in Wall Street? More like "make it rain" on Wall Street.

http://i.imgur.com/rwUIHwY.gif

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:01 | 6888292 BullyBearish
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There is no "candidate" Wall Street wants to be president more than Hitlery...

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:04 | 6888309 BullyBearish
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There's SO MANY to chose from but my favorite clip that goes straight to the heart of Hitlery...when she's in, MILLIONS, including Americans will die because of her...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIRYvJQeHM

 

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:43 | 6887882 Haole
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Exceptional bullshit, BTChez.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:44 | 6887889 Calculus99
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Bet the bitch didn't even read it. 

Folks, if you haven't worked it out yet a) you're a bit dim, and b) you're being played....

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:44 | 6887890 Dre4dwolf
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Is she aware that in the investors world Corzine is Synonymous with fraud lol?

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:45 | 6887897 williambanzai7
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CRAZY BALDHEADS

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:49 | 6887919 Truther
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LOL WB, you got this one. Though I would like to say he's begging for a BJ with his laugh.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:36 | 6888154 38BWD22
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Most excellent Wm!

+ billionaires

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:05 | 6888321 VegasBob
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Voting for Hillary Clinton because she purports to be a woman is like eating a turd because it looks like a tootsie roll...

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:45 | 6887898 Laughinggrizzley
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How about reimplementing Glass-Stegall, that you husband pissed on? 

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:52 | 6887935 FireBrander
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Putting back the Glass would stop banks from gambling with depositors money on Wall Street...bad for profits.

PS. Bill Clinton SIGNED the repeal...but...THE REPUBLICAN PARTY wrote legislation to repeal Glass and delivered to Clinton for final approval.

PSS. Clinton was against it, until he stuck his dick in the wind and figured out the political wind was blowing in favor of the repeal...

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:58 | 6887964 Laughinggrizzley
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And Rubin needed a job at Citibank...

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 14:36 | 6888796 JRobby
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Rubin needed to be euthanized. Still does.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:36 | 6888124 FireBrander
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Glass Repeal - Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA), also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999


Authors:
Phil Gramm (Republican of Texas)

Jim Leach (Republican -Iowa)

Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. (Republican -Virginia)

 

Democrats on the Bill:

Rep. John Dingell (Democrat of Michigan) argued that the bill would result in banks becoming "too big to fail." Dingell further argued that this would necessarily result in a bailout by the Federal Government

 

The Final Vote in the Senate before giving it to Clinton:

Republicans: 100% PRO passage.

Democrats: 2.3% Pro passage.

Democrats: 97.8% AGAINST PASSAGE!

..and OF COURSE Clinton signed off on what Wall Street wanted...the FIRST of MANY sellouts to the Democrats positions...Sound (cough!, hush, Obama) familiar?

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:44 | 6888197 A Nanny Moose
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Glass did nothing to prevent bubbles and ensuing crashes. We had the 80's property bubble, and junk bond debacle inder Glass. The dying dollar is the problem.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:03 | 6888302 FireBrander
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Glass separated "Banking" from "Gambling (aka Wall Street)".

With the removal of Glass, bank deposits could now be "financialized" at tremendous profit.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 14:40 | 6888823 JRobby
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80's property bubble was S&L's. Different set of laws/governance.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:13 | 6888354 FireBrander
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Thanks a lot Iowa...you Religious nutjobs gave us Jim Leach, and now we have Joni Ernst to deal with...and you want Carson for President?

Religion is a toxic drug.

~~~~~

Joni Ernst (ex Military) is "against Socialized Medicine"..."Repeal ObamaCare because it's Socialized Medicine"....but believes that the VA Medical System "provides good care...and just needs MORE MONEY to improve access to care"....THE VA is PURE Socialized Medicine you stupid bitch!...if you are "philosophically opposed" to Socialized Medicine, then JOB 1 should be to REPEAL THE VA MEDICAL SYSTEM! Don't our Vets deserve better than Socialized Medicine?

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 14:38 | 6888810 JRobby
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"known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999"

Because the old, antiquated financial system was taking too long to crash. This new plan crashes it in 10 years, tops!

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 16:05 | 6889264 thebigunit
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I'm skeptical.  Can you prove this?

PSS. Clinton was against it, until he stuck his dick in the wind and figured out the political wind was blowing in favor of the repeal...

Do you have pictures?

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 18:58 | 6890229 FireBrander
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"I'm skeptical.  Can you prove this?"

Sure! Just Google it! Be sure to search for Bills Clintons dick pics...if you just search "Clintons Dick", you may get a lot of Hillary pics.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:11 | 6888019 Usurious
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pretty sure Monica was a honey pot............Linda tripp worked at DOD?

the bankers and tankers(MIC) both got what they wanted and the American people got fucked again.......

question is ......was clinton in on it?.........how much is his net worth again?

 

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:46 | 6887905 buzzsaw99
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i'm sure whatever it says is an insult to my intelligence and an affront to my sense of common decency.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:37 | 6888161 38BWD22
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Common decency is scarce now.

Great comment.  

*Sigh*

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:48 | 6887908 ebworthen
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She found Jon Corzine!  Quick!  Cuff him!

Oh wait, that's her pal, no jail for him!

She'll "Vince Foster" her supporters for sure.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:48 | 6887909 wmbz
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"executives need to be held more accountable. No one should be too big to jail."

 

Except for you right, asshole! The cackling cunt is bought and paid for like all the rest.

However she can kill people and get away with murder over and over again.

She should be dangling from a rope in the public square. It would make a great selfie shot!

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:33 | 6887979 FireBrander
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Hillary is not a member of the "Executive Class"; she belongs to the "Political Class"!

The Political Class writes and enforces the laws for the Executive Class while holding themselves above the laws they write.

The executives she's talking about jailing are the one's that weren't allowed "input" on the laws they broke because they failed to pony up enough cash to the Political Class; so let them burn and teach the others a lesson.

What lesson?

Before you break a law, WRITE IT YOURSELF! Then you can do what you please and it's all perfectly legal!

Obama on the Bush Economic Collapse..why no one went to jail..."no one broke any laws"...while that's not 100% true, it's true enough!

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:48 | 6887912 williambanzai7
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EVERY MAN'S NIGHTMARE

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:51 | 6887932 Truther
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Bill:"Damn you're fucking ugly." "Where's Monica?"

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:09 | 6888010 ShouldveLeftHer
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Thank you WB. Your time and dedication are usually a good source of genuine laughs for me, and I dont laugh much anymore. Keep up the good work, you are appreciated.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:39 | 6888171 38BWD22
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Almost gives you a little sympathy for Big Bill.

Almost.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 14:33 | 6888783 Clowns on Acid
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Brilliant Billy B !

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:48 | 6887913 i_call_you_my_base
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Utter bullshit.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:51 | 6887928 williambanzai7
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TRIPOLI CLINTON

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 14:52 | 6888883 Muse minus Time
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tony blair hiding under her skirt?

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:53 | 6887939 aliki
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any "plan" on how she'd "rein-in" that $19 trillion debt???

didn't think so

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:03 | 6887986 venturen
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Oddly Warren Buffet in the same weekend stated he would fully back Hillary's for President. Hillary probably does want to rein in Wall Street...and just spslit it between Buffet and the Clinton/Obama Fund!

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:09 | 6888011 lester1
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Why isn't Hillary in jail yet ??

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:13 | 6888028 firstdivision
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Why isn't 90% of congress, all the fuckers at the Pentagon, NSA, CIA, FRB, and SCOTUS?

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:24 | 6888416 FireBrander
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"Why isn't Hillary in jail yet ??"

Because her friends write and enforce the laws she's broken...and many of her enemies (Republicans) are guilty of breaking the same, or similar, laws...if they jail her, they set the precedent for jailing themselves.

You and I? LOL...we'd never see the light of day again.

Bernie wants to end this "Dual standard of Justice"...but..."he's tired of Hillaries emails"...Bernie is a sack of shit.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:20 | 6888065 Barrack Chavez
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Any Wall Street firm (this includes you Warren Buffett) that does not pay protection money to the Clinton Foundation will find themselves at the losing end of an SEC "investigation"

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:24 | 6888088 replaceme
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I'm just dying for some of my FB friends to post this speech and say how brave she is for taking this stance. I know some stupid f*ckers.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:30 | 6888122 NeedleDickTheBu...
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“You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.”

John N. Mitchell

 

Still rings true to this day again and again and again and again and again.....

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:33 | 6888139 mendigo
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That photo.

I laughed. I cried. 

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:39 | 6888174 VWAndy
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She will rain in wall street with bail ins that will show them.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:48 | 6888214 Bunga Bunga
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Who would have ever thunk that a Trump becomes the best candidate in a US presidential race?

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:49 | 6888230 hangemhigh77
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After riding in on my Unicorn and talking with the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause I believe every word Hilochio says.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:53 | 6888253 MFL8240
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Repulsive human.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:05 | 6888324 cookies anyone
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Hillarious 2016

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:06 | 6888326 I Write Code
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Sounds good-ish.  Wish the Republicans would say that stuff too.  I doubt she understands a word of it.

I don't think it's a "tax" on HFT, tax is traditionally on a net basis, a transaction fee is what I assume she means, though following SCOTUS I guess that's a tax too.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:07 | 6888330 SHADEWELL
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I, on behalf of the FF,  have to state that it appears as though the Republic may now be in its final days,

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

Myself to James Madison, January 30, 1787. see Boyd, Julian P., ed. Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 11. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955, p. 93.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:10 | 6888349 tarabel
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Man, that is one repulsive photo. It looks like she about to tongue him in the ear.

"Corzie baby, you look happy to see me. Or is that a banana in your pants?"

"Neither, actually. I brought you a fresh set of batteries."

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:13 | 6888364 thebigunit
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Just add Bill and Monica, some patchouli oil, whips, and frilly underwear and you've got something!

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2015...

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:13 | 6888373 reinhardt
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sure she'll "rein it in"

in the phony hearings right after she crashes the market

r

https://enronnext101.wordpress.com/

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:21 | 6888404 PrimalScream
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My best story about Hillary ... happened many years ago ...

she went to a normal restaurant so she could be seen to be "fraternising" with ordinary Americans.  at the end of the meal, Hillary had to ask her own staffers how to give a tip.  she honestly did not know how much to tip a waitress in an American restaurant.  I guess that important stuff - like a 15% gratuity - has never been on Hillary's roadmap.

A "woman of the people" .... HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Laughing my butt off. 

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 13:35 | 6888488 beavertails
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A Blue Dress for every woman

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 14:40 | 6888818 DeadFinks
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And all include a splotch of presidential spoof.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 15:08 | 6888954 Muse minus Time
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have to consider this campaign as entertaining as WWE otherwise I'd puke

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 15:16 | 6888990 PTR
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She will step on anyone, friend or foe, in the pursuit of personal power and will say whatever needs to be said to achieve it.  

 

When she starts bad-mouthing something she was just supporting 24 hours earlier, remember that.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 17:32 | 6889759 COL Jackson
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"Republicans may have decided to forget about the financial crisis that caused so much devastation — but I haven’t."

It would almost be worth letting Hillary be President to see how well she remembers the financial crisis when this shit show comes crashing down around her.

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 17:45 | 6889822 Head_Shots_Work
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That lying bitch is a lying liar. This is expected from a psychopathic personality, but what are we to think about her supporters? Hell - I've even heard that there are some people out there who still think that fuck Obama is a decent president. Amazing. 

Mon, 12/07/2015 - 23:40 | 6891808 ChickaBoom
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House Vote S 900 Financial Modernization Act ~
Repeal of Glass Steagall Act

Democrats 182 yes
Republicans 58 yes

Democrats 1 no
Republicans 131 no

Senate Vote

53 Republicans yes
44 democrats no

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/106-1999/h355

Tue, 12/08/2015 - 00:52 | 6892001 FireBrander
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The Senate votes on the FINAL bill before it gets to the President...FINAL vote was R's 100% Yeah, D's 97% Nay.

Votes in the House had more D support, but the Bill voted on there was "modified" by the Senate...and once "modified", 97% of D's said "NO WAY!".

The R's had a solid Senate majority, so they passed a wishy bill (that met "everyone's" wishes) through the House, then "modified" to what Wall Street wanted using the R majority in the Senate, which sent the D's to a 97% NO vote.

Tue, 12/08/2015 - 11:00 | 6893330 Vin
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Where's the billion dollars, Corzine?

Tue, 12/08/2015 - 18:28 | 6896161 ChickaBoom
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https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/106-1999/s354

52 Republicans +
38 Democrats
= 90 % of SENATE on Nov. 4,1999
Voted FOR the repeal of GLASS-STEAGALL

7 Democrats voted no

Pres. Clinton signed on Nov. 12, 1999

FINAL VOTE

*Look it up.

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