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Not everyone on Wall Street hates Bernie Sanders
There are few, if any, places in America where the candidate Bernie Sanders is more openly reviled than on Wall Street.
Almost everything about the social Democrat’s platform — like his proposals to tax transactions, capital gains and “extreme wealth” — is anathema to the creed of the well-heeled financial set.
- Lananh Nguyen
- The Sydney Morning Herald
- Bloomberg
And yet it turns out that some of the capitalists he rails against quietly like him.
About $US1.70 of every $US100 he raised through last year came from the finance, insurance and real estate industries.
What’s more, talk to these donors and they usually say the same thing:
There are scores…