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Bursting the Elizabeth Warren Bubble
A lot has happened since Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and Too Big to Fail became a populist rallying cry.
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When Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke at an event on financial reform yesterday in Washington, she opened by joking that it's good to see people still talking about financial reform. Then again, maybe she wasn't joking.
Warren is getting extra attention this week, after Noam Scheiber wrote in the New Republic that Warren is the nightmare scenario of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. Scheiber wrote that Democrats have moved closer to Warren's overt antipathy toward Wall Street, making Clinton's ties with the financial industry more of a liability.