Quote:Heidi Przybyla Heidi Przybyla – Thu Jan 21, 6:25 pm ET Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. investors overwhelmingly see President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey. The global quarterly poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers finds that 77 percent of U.S. respondents believe Obama is too anti-business and four-out-of-five are only somewhat confident or not confident of his ability to handle a financial emergency. The poll also finds a decline in Obama’s overall favorability rating one year after taking office. He is viewed favorably by 27 percent of U.S. investors. In an October poll, 32 percent in the U.S. held a positive impression. “Investors no longer feel they can trust their instincts to take risks,” said poll respondent David Young, a managing director for a broker dealer in New York. Young cited Obama’s efforts to trim bonuses and earnings, make health care his top priority over jobs and plans to tax “the rich or advantaged.” Carlos Vadillo, a fixed-income analyst at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in San Francisco, said Obama has been in a “constant war” with the banking system, using “fat-cat bankers and other misnomers to describe a business model which supports a large portion of America.”
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I'm not sure bankers are the "good guys" in all of this.

(01-22-2010 12:02 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  I'm not sure bankers are the "good guys" in all of this.

He's redirecting the message away from healthcare. Obama may be anti-business, but Goldmann Sachs et al don't have a lot of friends on "Main Street" either.....

But the only thing worse than 'governing-by-poll' is 'governing-by-Dow-Jones.' Doing whatever makes the stock market go up, and refraining from whatever makes it go down - at least in the short run - will continue to backfire.

Obama is actually making me sympathetic towards banks. And that's a mighty hard thing to do.

Who are the "US investors'. Seems to me that quite a bit of all Americans. That could be close to the number of all voters in the 08 election. Like 160 million. so 3/4 of 160 million. Thats 120 million people, huge number. Of that, how many voted for Obama, or they just voted against Bush.

(01-22-2010 11:56 AM)STLouis Blazer Wrote:  

Quote:Heidi Przybyla Heidi Przybyla – Thu Jan 21, 6:25 pm ET Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. investors overwhelmingly see President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey. The global quarterly poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers finds that 77 percent of U.S. respondents believe Obama is too anti-business and four-out-of-five are only somewhat confident or not confident of his ability to handle a financial emergency. The poll also finds a decline in Obama’s overall favorability rating one year after taking office. He is viewed favorably by 27 percent of U.S. investors. In an October poll, 32 percent in the U.S. held a positive impression. “Investors no longer feel they can trust their instincts to take risks,” said poll respondent David Young, a managing director for a broker dealer in New York. Young cited Obama’s efforts to trim bonuses and earnings, make health care his top priority over jobs and plans to tax “the rich or advantaged.” Carlos Vadillo, a fixed-income analyst at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in San Francisco, said Obama has been in a “constant war” with the banking system, using “fat-cat bankers and other misnomers to describe a business model which supports a large portion of America.”
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Ok, first of all, how many are actually Democrats in the first place? Not many. Second, this is based on only those who are subscribers to Bloomberg. How many of those are Democrats? Not many. In other words, the people who responded are mainly Republicans who have a hard on for big business and casino-like trading(which is a big reason many of the banks were/are on the verge of bankruptcy/failure).

(01-24-2010 04:10 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(01-22-2010 11:56 AM)STLouis Blazer Wrote:  

Quote:Heidi Przybyla Heidi Przybyla – Thu Jan 21, 6:25 pm ET Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. investors overwhelmingly see President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey. The global quarterly poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers finds that 77 percent of U.S. respondents believe Obama is too anti-business and four-out-of-five are only somewhat confident or not confident of his ability to handle a financial emergency. The poll also finds a decline in Obama’s overall favorability rating one year after taking office. He is viewed favorably by 27 percent of U.S. investors. In an October poll, 32 percent in the U.S. held a positive impression. “Investors no longer feel they can trust their instincts to take risks,” said poll respondent David Young, a managing director for a broker dealer in New York. Young cited Obama’s efforts to trim bonuses and earnings, make health care his top priority over jobs and plans to tax “the rich or advantaged.” Carlos Vadillo, a fixed-income analyst at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in San Francisco, said Obama has been in a “constant war” with the banking system, using “fat-cat bankers and other misnomers to describe a business model which supports a large portion of America.”
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/201001...1bcrdmy%20

Ok, first of all, how many are actually Democrats in the first place? Not many. Second, this is based on only those who are subscribers to Bloomberg. How many of those are Democrats? Not many. In other words, the people who responded are mainly Republicans who have a hard on for big business and casino-like trading(which is a big reason many of the banks were/are on the verge of bankruptcy/failure).

Yeah, you're right, people who make money probably suscribe to Bloomberg and the people who steal it from them probably don't.