We saw it a few weeks ago when her and Bill's remarks stopped Patriot Coal from screwing over its retirees, a tweet from her condemning Turing Pharmaceuticals for drug price gouging sent pharmaceutical stocks tumbling, and her stated opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership caused what had up to then been considered a slam-dunk deal to be in serious trouble.
And this all took place at the same time the Beltway press were busy talking about how badly things were supposedly going for her, with the Benghazi hearings looming.
Three weeks later, she's triumphed over the tinhorn Torquemadas tasked with breaking her on Benghazi, a strong debate performance made Biden, Webb, and Chafee all face reality and bail out of the race, and if anything her ability to influence events has grown, as yet another tweet of hers shook another group of greedy jerks, this time in the for-profit prison industry:
Hillary Clinton may not be president, but she's moving the markets like she is one. For the second time in three weeks, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination wiped millions of dollars off the value of an industry with a single tweet.
On Friday, private prison stocks dropped sharply after Clinton said we needed to "end the era of mass incarceration."
This is the sort of thing that happens when very powerful people think you're a lock to be the next president.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: When Hillary talks, people listen.