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Rick Perry on Wednesday delivered a speech on Wall Street reform in New York. The Republican presidential candidate vowed that if elected, the United States "will not bail out a single bank on Wall Street."" class="lightbox"> <img src="//web.archive.org/web/20150820001932im_/http://s3.amazonaws.com/static.texastribune.org/media/images/2015/07/29/Perry-Explains_jpg_312x1000_q100.jpg" alt="Former Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday delivered a speech on Wall Street reform in New York. The Republican presidential candidate vowed that if elected, the United States "will not bail out a single bank on Wall Street.""> </a> <div class="photo_links"> <a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150820001932/http://s3.amazonaws.com/static.texastribune.org/media/images/2015/07/29/Perry-Explains_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg" title="Former Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday delivered a speech on Wall Street reform in New York. The Republican presidential candidate vowed that if elected, the United States "will not bail out a single bank on Wall Street."" class="lightbox enlarge">Enlarge</a> <cite>Photo by MSNBC livestream screenshot</cite> </div> <div class="photo_caption">Former Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday delivered a speech on Wall Street reform in New York. The Republican presidential candidate vowed that if elected, the United States "will not bail out a single bank on Wall Street."</div> </div> <p>Sounding a deeply populist note, former Gov. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150820001932/http://www.texastribune.org/directory/rick-perry/">Rick Perry</a> on Wednesday launched an offensive against banks that are too big to fail, making a pitch for Wall Street reform while tying the 2008 financial crisis to Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.</p> <p>Warning that the "next crash is on the horizon," Perry used a New York speech to position himself as the only candidate with the economic record to to reverse an era of Wall Street run amok, enabled by complicit politicians. </p> <p>"If you elect me president, I will reform Wall Street and I will reform Washington," Perry declared, later promising not to "bail out a single bank on Wall Street."</p> <p>Perry had particularly harsh words for Clinton, whom he said must answer for her husband's economic policies as she wages her own 2016 campaign. In an extensive critique, Perry linked the 2008 housing collapse to Bill Clinton's efforts to expand the ranks of homeowners in the United States. </p> <p>"If Secretary Clinton wants to take credit for the 'Clinton economy,' then she must defend the destructive home ownership policies advocated by her husband that pushed shoddy loans to people couldn't afford them, and the economic chaos that pursued," Perry said. </p><div class="ad_container ad_container--adify"> <div class="ad adunit mobile tablet standard" data-adunit="TexasTribune_Content_StoryPage_InsideStory_468x60"> </div> </div> <p>The speech, held at the ritzy Yale Club in Manhattan, featured some of Perry's most populist language since he launched his campaign. </p> <p>"After the bailouts of 2008, Americans came to believe that Wall Street is out for itself. That the game is rigged. That the wealthy and the well-connected have insurmountable advantages over average Americans who simply work hard and play by the rules," Perry said, conjuring the specter of a "special political class that spends large sums of money to wield influence, to protect entrenched interests, to advocate for special favors at the expense of taxpayers and the general public." </p> <p>Among Perry's ideas to overhaul Wall Street's ways: strengthening a new rule from the Federal Reserve that requires America's biggest banks to maintain "financial cushions in case of another downturn." He also proposed that large financial institutions disentangle some of their services, reducing the risk of a full-blown collapse in times of crisis. </p> <p>Perry put a personal touch on his proposals, advocating for community banks like the one whose board he served on in Haskell, Texas, to be exempt from financial regulations under the Dodd-Frank Act. Along with that, he pushed for more congressional oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was created by Dodd-Frank.</p> <p>Throughout the speech, Perry took swipes at Democrats, including Clinton, for having a backward view of the future of the U.S. economy. </p> <p>"Democrats have a 1915 view of the 2015 economy," Perry said, accusing them of building a costly "toll bridge to the 21st century."</p> <p>He specifically went after Clinton for her support for raising capital gains taxes, noting that she once opposed the idea and that her husband cut the taxes in 1990s. Tapping into disagreements within the Democratic Party, Perry suggested Clinton now backs raising capital gains taxes as a result of "Warrenism," a reference to Massachusetts Sen. 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