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marmar

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Sun Apr 12, 2015, 09:43 PM Apr 2015

Hillary Clinton's Wall Street dilemma


New York (CNN) Wall Street is more than ready for Hillary Clinton.

The former secretary of state confirmed on Sunday what the political world has expected for months -- eight years after her first failed White House bid, Clinton will once again seek the Democratic Party's nomination for president.

"I'm hitting the road to earn your vote, because it's your time," Clinton said in a video released Sunday afternoon officially kicking off her campaign. "And I hope you'll join me on this journey."

As Clinton sets off onto the campaign trail to reintroduce herself to voters and court donors across the country, Wall Street elites are ready to roll out the red carpet. But while the enthusiastic support from the industry will be a financial boon for Clinton's newly launched campaign, it will also pose a delicate balancing act when it comes to appeasing a vocal wing of her party that is antagonistic toward the banking sector.

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Robert Wolf, the former CEO of UBS Americas and a close Obama associate who will back Clinton in 2016, said there's an "incredible amount of enthusiasm" for her campaign to get off the ground.

"We know the secretary from the years of being first lady to the senator to the secretary, so we have decades of working relationship with her," Wolf, who now runs a boutique consulting firm headquartered in Manhattan, told CNN. "I don't think it's surprising that the former senator of New York is close to the finance community." ...............(more)

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/12/politics/hillary-clinton-2016-wall-street/




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Hillary Clinton's Wall Street dilemma (Original Post) marmar Apr 2015 OP
LOL DURHAM D Apr 2015 #1
no probs. sucking up to wall street hasn't hurt obama any nt msongs Apr 2015 #2
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