With his New Hampshire win, Senator Bernie Sanders’ momentum continues to grow in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Part of Sanders’ appeal stems from his staunch opposition to all things Wall Street. In his speech on the topic from early this year, Sanders argued, “in the 1990s and later, the financial interests spent […]
Recent turbulence in the international financial markets suggests that the global economy may see a significant downturn running up to the November elections. That in turn could have major implications for the US economic recovery, as well as the election. Our 2016 presidential candidates must weigh the following five issues, and be able to provide cogent policy solutions […]
Last night, MSNBC hosted the second Democratic presidential primary debate of 2016 in Durham, New Hampshire. Former secretary of state and senator from New York Hillary Clinton and current Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) came to the University of New Hampshire campus in advance of that state’s primary on Tuesday, February 9th. This marks the first […]
There are a lot of things behind the recent stock market declines, but at least some of the blame for the 2016 bear market sell-off likely rests with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders – the two Democratic frontrunners for president. At Sunday’s debate it was a race to see who could raise tax rates the […]
I came across something in Salon which, even for there, seemed to me to be a very odd thing to be celebrating. Which is a speech Bernie Sanders gave in which he threatened to pretty much kill off the entire credit card industry. That isn’t, of course, what he thinks he said but it is […]