Sanders Rips Hillary Clinton Over Her Many Flip-Flops

Bernie Sanders’ campaign and was lit with glow sticks from the campaign of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as about 2,200 raucous Democrats gathered to hear speeches from the party’s three candidates for president Wednesday night. “We are friends. But I think in this critical moment in American history, when you have a Wall Street situation, when you have an American middle class which is disappearing, when you have massive levels of income and wealth inequality, when you have climate change, we need a president who now has the courage to stand up to the billionaire class and Wall Street“. “If Wall Street does not end its greed, we will end it for them”.

He coupled that promise, delivered in front of a raucous crowd just a few subway stops from Wall Street, with a series of attacks on rival Hillary Clinton, arguing her personal and political ties make her unable to truly take on the financial industry.

If Franklin Roosevelt had been as timid as Hillary Clinton, we would not have Social Security today.

Since 1977, the Fed has been mandated by Congress to pursue a “dual mandate” of maximum employment and low inflation, but Fed officials are often criticized for pursuing one at the expense of the other.

The front-runner has spent twice as much time in Iowa as New Hampshire over the first week of 2016 – with more visits expected early next week – and is deploying top surrogates Bill Clinton and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe to the state beginning on Thursday.

Clinton promised Wednesday evening that activists would “always have a friend in the White House if I am your president”.

He pledged to draft a list of firms whose failure would put the US economy at risk in his first 100 days in office and require those firms to reorganize within a year, saying that “if a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist”.

Silver, the Jewish editor of the FiveThirtyEight blog who correctly predicted the election results of all 50 states in 2012, told Adweek on Monday that Hillary Clinton should win the Democratic nomination barring “some type of renewed scandal or health problem”.

Instead of breaking up big banks, regulators need to focus on so-called “shadow banks” such as hedge funds and insurance companies that perform numerous same functions, Clinton has said. At the December 19 Democratic debate, Clinton was asked whether corporate America should love her. No. Will they begin to play by the rules if I’m president? “Clearly believes that she can make the pitch she’s far more electable than you are”.

In addition to a nationwide campaign to screen children for autism, Clinton would establish public-private partnerships to help autistic children move from school-based services to more independent lives, including employment opportunities. “Secretary Clinton is wrong”, Sanders said during his Tuesday policy address about Wall Street. Speaking in New York, Sanders repeated his calls to break up the nation’s biggest banks, and he had some tough words for the Federal Reserve. Also, one of her advisors is 18-year Goldman veteran Gary Gensler, while her husband had many Goldman alums in his eight-year administration. After the financial crisis, he said, the Fed had acted urgently to rescue the big banks.

During his remarks, Sanders credited Obama for making progress in reducing the number of uninsured but said “we must do better”.

Sanders’ supporters, many that were bussed from his rally to the dinner event, erupted in cheers and blew into piercingly loud, vuvuzela-like horns at almost every mention of their candidate’s name.

Katrina Brown, a union electrician from north Las Vegas, said that she had also been impressed by O’Malley’s speech, and that he had come across as “someone who gets things done”.