Sanders Counters Clinton With Bank Haymaker: Tale of the Tape
- Senator sticks to his guns in calling for break up of lenders
- Clinton campaign says proposals won't prevent the next crisis
Bernie Sanders' Wall Street Plan in Three Minutes
In reiterating Tuesday that dismantling big banks would be his key policy goal for the financial industry, U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders neither surprised nor brought an end to the bickering between him and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton over who has a better plan for addressing the dangers posed by Wall Street.
Sanders promised that his White House would quickly build a hit list of too-big-to-fail financial firms and, within a year, “break these institutions up so that they no longer pose a grave threat to the economy.” His blunt-instrument proposal takes a harder line than Clinton and prompted her campaign to accuse the U.S. senator from Vermont of aiming in the wrong direction even before he could deliver his speech.