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It should not be surprising that anticipation of Donald Trump’s presidential victory caused a 900-point plunge, over several days, in the Dow Jones stock average. Wall Street sent stocks down by over 20 percent after Ronald Reagan won the presidency.

(Reuters) — Artificial intelligence programs have beaten chess masters and TV quiz show champions. Next up: stock market cheats.

David Sirota writes in the International Business Times that a Wall Street executive who could be Hillary Clinton’s choice for Treasury Secretary has a plan to give the financial industry control over billions in taxpayer funds for retirement savings. This plan, Sirota notes, would “enrich” the Wall Street hedge fund and private equity industries “that have donated millions to support Clinton’s presidential bid.”

Clinton campaign workers understood that such a speech would be a nightmare for her campaign, but Hillary was insistent that Bill be allowed to continue.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Behind closed doors, Hillary Clinton adopted a rather more accommodating tone with Wall Street than she has on the campaign trail.

Associated Press reporter Lisa Lerer calls Hillary Clinton’s position of “open trade and open borders” politically “moderate” in a hot take column about Wikileaks’ first round of released emails from John Podesta.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that leaked excerpts of Hillary Clinton’s speeches to Wall Street bankers might have been doctored, and that he “had no way of knowing” whether she actually said what the documents said.

U.S. stocks crashed 2.5 percent on Friday, September 9 as Wall Street woke up to the risk of “Two Bumps and a Stumble” — i.e. when it takes two interest rate hikes to generate a market reaction.

During an interview broadcast on Friday’s edition of CNN’s “The Lead,” Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) stated that “Wall Street has been buying his way into Washington for decades now, and they are a big part of, not only how the

Something big is happening in American politics—bigger than this election. And so even if we can’t precisely predict the winner this November, we can know the general contours of American politics in the decades to come: populists on one side, elitists on the other.

Pioneering political pollster Pat Caddell told Breitbart News that the Breitbart/Gravis poll on immigration confirms that Americans have real concerns about immigration, even Democrats, going into the last 100 days of the presidential election.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Princeton Professor Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary Dr. Cornel West stated that Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, doesn’t “have a whole lot of integrity.”

In endorsing Hillary Clinton as the Democrat’s choice for President, Sen. Bernie Sanders decried “greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior” and declared that we couldn’t let “billionaires buy elections.”

Donald Trump is using his Art of the Deal to attack Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street fundraising spigot by promising to reinstate the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act that her husband, President Bill Clinton, repealed in the waning days of his Administration.

Major banking and Wall Street entities will not be attending the Republican National Convention (RNC), according to a report just one day after Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton — who gave high-priced speeches to Goldman Sachs and will not release the content of those addresses.

POMONA — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) slammed the Democratic Party establishment on Thursday evening, telling an audience of thousands in this largely Hispanic town that party leaders wanted voters to “think small.”

President Barack Obama took questions from reporters today during his visit at the G7 summit in Japan, but appeared annoyed when he was asked about Hillary Clinton’s emails instead of his trip to Asia.

After her dramatic chant of Taylor Swift lyrics to challenge Donald Trump, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has turned to a new line of attack against the presumptive Republican nominee.

On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon asked Donald Trump about the appointment of his business associate Steven Mnuchin as campaign finance chairman.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that he to “get rid of carried interest, and some other things” loopholes in the tax code, and that while he isn’t talking about closing loophole for the rich in general, he wants to

Tuesday in an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a supporter of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton’s White House bid, downplayed the importance of Clinton releasing transcripts of paid speeches she gave, which included

The Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) is a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would, very broadly speaking, allow Puerto Rico to cancel nearly half of its $72 billion debt, in exchange for surrendering much control over its fiscal affairs to an independent financial control board.

Friday at a rally for his wife, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, in Riverdale, NY, former President Bill Clinton downplayed the role Wall Street is playing in “the misery of America” and pointed out that New York City’s boroughs other than Manhattan

Friday on MSNBC, Karen Finney, spokeswoman for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, dismissed the idea that transcripts of a speech her candidate gave on Wall Street were relevant to “undecided voters.” Finney cited education and health care as two issues that

Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that her paid Wall Street speeches aren’t an issue, but that she’ll only release the transcripts “if everybody agrees to do it” when pressed on her paid speeches to Goldman

President Obama touted rules “crack down” on “conflicts of interest” by retirement advisors and “big corporations that change their address overseas after acquiring smaller companies” by saying that his administration took steps to ensure “everybody plays by the same rules”

An unintentionally revealing interview with House Speaker Paul Ryan shows exactly why he’s being touted as an establishment replacement for Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention, and also why Trump is the shocking frontrunner for the 2016 nomination.

Monday on CNBC, network CME Group floor reporter Rick Santelli sounded off on the anti-Wall Street sentiment that has been prevalent during the election season. Santelli said this is now the time of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” and floated the

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) again called on his rival Hillary Clinton to release the transcripts of the speeches she gave to Wall Street.

Wall Street’s Marco Rubio and establishment-supporting Republican power elite are preparing to wage a full-on war on Donald Trump in an attempt to dethrone the billionaire Republican presidential frontrunner from securing the party’s nomination. And money will reportedly not be an issue.

Despite a growing string of victories in the Republican primaries ,the DC-Wall Street cabal that has dominated the GOP since 1988 has no intention of letting the billionaire real estate mogul be nominated. None other than Karl Rove has insisted the stop-Trump effort is not too late and can succeed.

Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton maintained that “there is no unknown” regarding her speeches to Wall Street during CNN’s Democratic Presidential Town Hall on Tuesday. Hillary, when asked about the transcripts of her Wall Street speeches

For the first time, a poll shows upstart Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) leading establishment favorite Hillary Clinton nationally.

A new CNN/ORC Poll shows an almost even split between likely Democratic caucusgoers in Nevada in their support for Hillary Clinton (48%) and Bernie Sanders (47%) ahead of this Saturday’s caucuses.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Bloomberg Politics and Bloomberg National Correspondent Joshua Green said that a financial CEO he spoke to told him Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “lavished praised on Wall Street, said you

Columnist Mark Shields argued Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doesn’t have an answer on her ties to Wall Street, and that “Instead of remaining pristine, she plunged into that, money-making, knowing full well that it was