Claim: The Great Recession emerged "in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm."
Fact-check: Clinton's off-base linkage of tax cuts, Great Recession
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2016-10-02T00:00:00