Wall Street Isn't Feeling the Bern as Sanders Calls for Breakup
- Candidate's pledge to dismantle biggest banks won't be easy
- `His party would restrain him when it came to actual policy'
Bernie Sanders' Wall Street Plan in Three Minutes
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Wall Street banks are about to face another test of whether words will ever hurt them.
Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate from Vermont, vowed during a speech Tuesday in New York to break up the largest U.S. banks within one year of taking office. Sanders lambasted the power the biggest lenders have and the “greed of Wall Street and corporate America” that he said is destroying the nation’s fabric.