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Acronym TV [52] Bernie Sanders v. Wall Street, Obama on Gun Control, TransCanada Sues United States

Acronym TV [52] Bernie Sanders v. Wall Street, Obama on Gun Control, TransCanada Sues United States
Fri, 1/8/2016 - by Dennis Trainor, Jr.
This article originally appeared on Acronym TV

Sanders v. Wall Street Calling the Wall Street business model a fraud in a speech earlier this week, Bernie Sanders delivered a campaign promise that will be quoted, praised, debated, a fretted over for as long as Sanders remains a viable candidate, declaring: "If you are a bank too big to fail, you don’t have the right to exist.”

Obama On Gun Control Barack Obama doesn’t want to take your guns away; he’d just prefer you did not use them so much.

TransCanada Sues U.S. for $15 Billion TransCanada lost its bid to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Now it is using NAFTA and the US Federal courts to seek $15 billion damages.

Episode breakdown 00:02 Intro 02:01 Bernie Sanders: Break Up The Big Banks 11:27 Obama’s Gun Control Plan: Too strong or Too weak? 17:35 Keystone XL rejection leads TransCanada to sue Obama administration 23:17 A History Corporate Personhood in 3 Minutes

 

 

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