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Sen. Bernie Sanders got pushback from Hillary Clinton when he again framed her as an establishment candidate, a friend to Wall Street, and the recipient of speaking fees for Wall Street firms, during the MSNBC Feb. 4 debate.

Democratic Socialist presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is closer to succeeding in his “political revolution” on America’s capitalist and free markets system, having finished in a virtual tie with fellow Democratic contender Hillary Clinton.

Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended holding a fundraiser hosted by financial firm Franklin Square Capital Partners in Philadelphia earlier in the week by saying, “I am proud to have such a broad base of support

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders hammered Hillary Clinton over the Iraq War and Wall Street during Monday night’s CNN town hall event in Iowa.

Silicon Valley tech stocks that have led world stock markets up since the March 2009 bottom of Great Financial Crisis led markets down on January 15, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tanking 537 points before recovering to a still

Twitter is well on its way to becoming a little deal.

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sounded off on how large banks that were considered to be “too big to fail” seven years ago are now even bigger and how that poses a threat

New York’s Top Democrats have identified the causes of the mass opposition to illegal immigration and Syrian resettlement: Anger, fear, and Ronald Reagan’s 1980 election.

Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is launching an apparent attack on the Wall Street banks that finance much of her campaign.

With Oscar prospects plummeting for the anti-Wall Street film The Big Short, Brad Pitt is rallying Tinseltown progressives to pump up the buzz for his two-hour morality lecture.

Naturally, in order to protect Hillary Clinton, our corrupt and useless DC Media has completely ignored the fact that during Saturday’s Democrat presidential debate, the frontrunner cravenly invoked 9/11 to  justify all the Wall Street money her campaign has and

On Sunday’s “Face the Nation” on CBS, correspondent Nancy Cordes reacted to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton using the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack as the reason she received donations from Wall Street as a senator from New York during Saturday’s

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hit by allied criticism on Saturday from her two remaining 2016 Democratic presidential primary opponents, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

DES MOINES – Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is under fire for using the 9/11 terrorist attacks to justify her years of Wall Street campaign contributions.

At Saturday’s debate, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defended her ties to Wall Street by invoking the September 11, 2001 terror attack.

Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was pressed on her ties to Wall Street and was told she was “indebted to some of its biggest players” by moderator John Dickerson during Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate on

In an interview with The Hill, Donald Trump warned of a stock market bubble on the verge of bursting, and slammed the Dodd-Frank financial regulations, which were roundly praised by the 2016 Democrats during their first primary debate on Tuesday night. Trump called Dodd-Frank “terrible” and said he would “absolutely” repeal it as President.

Former PIMCO boss Bill Gross has just filed a lawsuit against PIMCO seeking $200 million and claiming to be a victim–despite the company receiving a “Wells Notice” warning that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating potential criminal violations in investment performance reporting during Gross’s tenure.

For the first time in his 19-year Senate career, Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions is mulling an endorsement of a GOP primary candidate, saying the party hasn’t “defended [the American people] sufficiently on the world stage.”

“The economy is stronger, the housing market is stronger, people are seeing job creation again,” Obama said. He blamed Republicans on Congress for holding back the economy after they failed to pass an expansive highway bill.
“Right now, we could be putting hundreds of thousands of people back to work rebuilding the infrastructure of this country and yet we have a Congress that finances our highway bill for 3 months at a time,” he said. “That’s not what the greatest country on earth does.”

One of the big problems with allowing an authoritarian communist/crony-capitalist regime to become a world financial leader is that they lie about everything. China’s long-concealed economic woes finally became impossible to hide, and we got a worldwide market panic that sent the

As the American stock market opened to lows unseen since the 2008 economic meltdown, (as of this writing it is down only 373 points — a fairly typical down day), Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump took to Twitter to refresh

President Obama won’t be in the White House to see the market close. Later this afternoon he will board Air Force One for a trip to Las Vegas where he is expected to make a speech at the National Clean Energy Summit to promote his stiff regulatory policy on power plant emissions.

The Greek stock market was shut down five weeks ago, as the nation spiraled into an economic and political crisis, facing its final debt showdown with European creditors. The market just concluded its first day of trading since the shutdown, and the outlook is grim: the market lost 16.2 percent of its value on the first day back in business.

Perry and Trump have been engaged in a rhetorical battle for weeks. At the end of Perry’s speech Wednesday at the Yale Club in New York City, he was questioned about Trump’s remarks. Grinning as he listened to the question, Perry quipped, “Let’s get a pull-up bar out there and see who can do more pull-ups,” as the audience roared with cheers.

President Obama declared, “if your business fails, we shouldn’t have to bail you out” and touted Wall Street reform during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, everybody. It’s been seven years since the worst financial crisis in generations spread

In an almost unheard-of action for a Wall Street investment banking firm, UBS downgraded Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA-$267.39) to a “sell”, driving the price of the shares down 5.5 percent, or -15.49.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” network senior business correspondent Charlie Gasparino explained that Wall Street is concerned over real estate mogul Donald Trump’s rise in the presidential polls to guest host Charles Payne. “The

The world’s biggest online social network knocked the world’s largest retailer out of the top 10 list of the highest-valued companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index on Monday and the gap widened on Tuesday.

The Wall Street donor class is rapidly losing control over the Republican Party heading into the 2016 presidential primary process, all while Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) moves into a key kingmaker role on the trail with messaging while most candidates are searching for a sweet spot with conservative economic populism.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a 2016 presidential candidate, seems to be misleading voters following a New York Times report that details how Rubio’s longtime donor, billionaire Norman Braman, has used his access to the senator.

15 years after the Dot-Com Bubble burst, the Nasdaq Composite Index leapt by 20.89 points, or 0.4%, to close at 5056.06 on Thursday, a record high. The strength of the index is being driven by the Silicon Valley 150 tech companies that have provided the juice to lift the NASDAQ by 6.8%, despite U.S. stock performance trailing major world markets.

The first fundraising numbers for Hillary Clinton’s White House bid will not be posted until July, but Wall Street took leadership roles in fundraising for both of her New York Senate campaigns, and nine of Mrs. Clinton’s top 20 donor organizations in her 2008 presidential bid were financial services firms. But after six years of a Wall Street donation boycott in retaliation for passing Dodd-Frank, Clinton is the Democrats’ best hope for reviving access to $100s of millions from Wall Street’s firehose of political donations.

CNN Senior Washington Correspondent Jeff Zeleny reported that Wall Street believes Hillary Clinton is “kind of one of them” and that one of the Wall Street donors he spoke to told him “she’s not scary to us yet, because we

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) has not commanded much public attention since Hillary Clinton started channeling Warren’s book, Fighting Chance, which claims the “system is rigged” against the middle class because it is controlled by and for the elites who tilt the game in their favor. But in a bold effort to take all the oxygen out of the Clinton campaign, Senator Warren (D-Mass.) laid out a bare-knuckles legislative road map on Wednesday to kick Wall Street in the teeth.

Multiple conservative groups rebelled right out of the gate to Senator John McCain’s announcement that he will indeed seek re-election in what is expected to be a historic 2016 election cycle.