Hillary Clinton’s banking tightrope

Published May 21, 2016 4:01am ET



Hillary Clinton appears positioned to wage a general election campaign with the support of both Wall Street and the most aggressive populist critics of the banking industry, even if both sides may have reservations about her.

Clinton, long viewed as a Democrat friendly to Big Business, has endorsed enough far-reaching reforms of Wall Street during her bruising primary with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to assuage the concerns of many of the hardcore big bank opponents who have been ascendant in the party.

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