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Democratic Candidates Take Aim at Wall Street.
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley all want to tax financial transactions.
Democratic presidential candidates are pushing a Wall Street tax that has been debated since Keynes as a way to corral financial markets, a sign of how much the finance industry remains in the cross hairs seven years after the meltdown of Lehman Brothers.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/democratic-candidates-take-aim-at-wall-street-1447266965