Is Hillary Clinton turning to the hard left so as to deflect the growing criticism of her little questioned ties to the large Wall Street banks? Her recent comments at a Boston rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley, that businesses do not create jobs, is turning heads. Hillary Clinton comments at the Boston rally “Don’t let anybody tell you that, you know, it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs,” Hillary Clinton was quoted as saying. “You know that old theory, ‘trickle-down economics.’ That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.” Clinton didn’t elaborate on who creates…
Hillary Clinton Sounds Populist Tone While Avoiding Bank Discussion
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.