JD Vance on Corporations : Jul 22, 2016
Deregulation doesn't address economic & social crisis

Trump's candidacy is music to their ears. He criticizes the factories shipping jobs overseas. His apocalyptic tone matches their lived experiences on the ground. He seems to love to annoy the elites, which is something a lot of people wish they could do but can't because they lack a platform.

Jill Stein on Principles & Values : Jul 12, 2016
Hillary supports Wall Street, war and the Walmart economy

The policies she fought for--along with her husband and political partner, Bill Clinton--have been foundations of the economic disaster most Americans are still struggling with: the abuses of deregulated Wall Street, rigged corporate trade agreements, racist mass incarceration, and the destruction of the social safety net for poor women and children. The consistent efforts of the Democratic Party to minimize, sideline, and sabotage the Sanders campaign are a wake up call that we can't have a revolutionary campaign inside a counter-revolutionary party. I call on the tens of millions inspired by Bernie Sanders' call for political revolution.

Bernie Sanders on Corporations : Apr 15, 2016
Regrets vote to deregulate swaps and derivatives

"Clinton's claim is unavoidably true. In 2000, Sanders voted for the Commodity Futures Modernization Act. The act prevented the government from regulating credit default swaps and the trading of financial derivatives. Swaps like these, which are a type of financial derivative, were largely vilified during the financial meltdown of 2008. Sanders was far from the only Democrat who voted for the bill. It passed the House by a wide margin: Only four representatives did not vote for it. Not to mention, Clinton's husband, then-president Bill Clinton, supported the bill and signed it into law."

Bernie now says he regrets that vote, but Hillary was accurate.

Bernie Sanders on Budget & Economy : Feb 4, 2016
I led the effort against deregulation, but we lost

CLINTON: You're the one who voted to deregulate swaps and derivatives in 2000, which contributed to the over-leveraging of Lehman Brothers, which was one of the culprits that brought down the economy. I'm not saying you did it for any kind of financial advantage. What we've got to do as Democrats is to be united to solve these problems.

SANDERS: I was on the House Financial Committee at that time. I heard the arguments coming from Democrats and Republicans -- Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan -- about how great an idea it would be if we did away with Glass-Steagall and if we allowed investor banks and commercial banks and big insurance companies to merge. Go to YouTube today -- look up Greenspan -- it was the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression.

Bernie Sanders on Budget & Economy : Feb 4, 2016
We need a 21st-century Glass-Steagall legislation

SANDERS: I would say that we do need a 21st century Glass-Steagall legislation. I would tell you also that when you have three out of the four largest banks in America today, significantly bigger than when we bailed them out because they were too big to fail, I think if Teddy Roosevelt were alive today, a good Republican by the way, what he would say is: Break them up; they are too powerful economically; they are too powerful politically. And that is what I believe and many economists believe. Time to break them up.

Bernie Sanders on Government Reform : Feb 4, 2016
Congress represents the wealthy; they donate to ensure that

SANDERS: Let's talk about why, in the 1990s, Wall Street got deregulated. Did it have anything to do with the fact that Wall Street spent billions of dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions? Let's ask why it is that we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Let's talk about climate change. Do you think there's a reason why not one Republican has the guts to recognize that climate change is real? Do you think it has anything to do with the Koch brothers and ExxonMobil pouring huge amounts of money into the political system? There is a reason these people are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And it is undermining American democracy and it is allowing Congress to represent wealthy campaign contributors and not working families.

Jill Stein on Budget & Economy : Jan 25, 2012
90% tax on bonuses for bailed out bankers

• First, the debt overhang holding back the economy must be deleveraged by reducing homeowner and student debt burdens, including an immediate halt to all foreclosures and evictions
• Democratize monetary policy. This means we'll nationalize the private bank-dominated Federal Reserve Banks
• We will break up the oversized banks that are "too big to fail."
• We will end taxpayer-funded bailouts for banks, insurers, and other financial companies.
• We will establish a 90% tax on bonuses for bailed out bankers.

Joe Biden on Budget & Economy : Oct 2, 2008
Deregulation got us into the housing crisis

BIDEN: Barack warned about the sub prime mortgage crisis. We let Wall Street run wild. John McCain thought the answer is that tried and true Republican response, deregulate, deregulate. And guess what? The middle class needs tax relief. They need it now.

PALIN: It was predator lenders who tried to talk Americans into thinking that it was smart to buy a $300,000 house if we could only afford a $100,000 house. There was deception, and there was greed and there is corruption. Joe Six Pack, hockey moms across the nation, we need to band together and say never again. We need to demand from the federal government strict oversight of those entities in charge of our investments and our savings. Let's do what our parents told us before we probably even got that first credit card. Don't live outside of our means.

Bernie Sanders on Corporations : Oct 1, 2008
Deregulation led to incredible greed of $39B in CEO bonuses