Hillary Clinton will lay out her economic agenda in a major speech Monday that will set the tone for more detailed policy announcements this summer and much of her messaging through the rest of her presidential campaign.
The Democratic front-runner's choice of venue may be telling: She'll be delivering her address in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood at The New School, a university whose economics department takes a decidedly leftist tilt. Her campaign announced the speech with a press release promising that Clinton would be offering an "economic vision" and a "framework for an economy that grows faster, fairer and more sustainably."
The speech comes as several of Clinton's Democratic rivals are staking out emphatic positions against major financial interests. Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley on Thursday issued a white paper that made detailed policy recommendations aimed at cracking down on Wall Street. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has made confrontation with the "billionaire class" his campaign hallmark.
