Rick Perry to Donald Trump: You, me, pull-up contest

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said Thursday he operates in reality, not on reality TV-taking a shot at rival GOP hopeful Donald Trump .

The headline here is that Perry comes close to calling for a breakup of big multi-line financial conglomerates, with his fact sheet saying that “requiring banks to separate their commercial lending and investment banking practices should be considered”.

Trump, who rarely declines an opportunity to bash his critics, has mocked Perry’s gubernatorial record and questioned his intelligence.

Rick Perry has a plan to change the way the federal government regulates Wall Street and it is … kind of left-wing. “To be quite frank, they were screwed”.

That won’t necessarily stop Perry from raising money from the Wall Street money crowd though.

“During the good times of the 90s, the seeds were sown to do great harm to the middle class of America”, he added, noting that the Clinton economy led to “economic chaos”.

Well, if you want to put it slightly more kindly, you could have just said erratic and unpredictable but everybody knows that in the lead-up to this debate it’s going to be all about Trump.

Perry went after both Clintons Wednesday.

Within half an hour of Perry’s Clinton dig, American Bridge – which is closely linked to Clintonworld – released a video of him knocking someone else over the housing bubble: former Florida governor Jeb Bush.

Furthermore, Perry called on exempting community banks from financial regulations under the Dodd-Frank Act and advocated for more congressional oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). With Fannie Mac and Freddie Mae still undertaking what he deemed “relaxed credit standards”, Mr. Perry said another economic crash was imminent.

“If we want to bring Texas’ prosperity to the nation as a whole, we’ll have to do a lot more than terminate Ex-Im”.

In the interview, Perry framed his views on the economy as progressive, criticizing some of his opponents from the Democrat party for being too close-minded about new startups.