Posted on 11/04/2010 6:37:53 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Wall Street Still Doesn't Love the GOP
Bankers understand that Dodd-Frank has written 'too big to fail' into law. So do the tea partiers.
By CHARLES GASPARINO
Wall Street's love affair with President Obama is officially over—or so we are told by much of the mainstream media. After enjoying Wall Street's praise (and donations) during the 2008 campaign, Mr. Obama has supposedly alienated the heads of the big banks to such an extent that they've spent most of their campaign cash on Republican candidates in tomorrow's midterm elections. Some are even prodding New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run as an independent in 2012.
But based on my reporting, including interviews with senior banking executives, Wall Street doesn't so much love the Republican Party as it is hedging its bets on divided government. And barring an independent run by Mr. Bloomberg (which even his most optimistic Wall Street supporters concede is a long shot), the big bankers are planning once again to return to Mr. Obama's side for 2012. Maybe not to the same degree as in 2008, when Goldman Sachs employees gave more donations to the Obama campaign than any other organization except the University of California. But enough to give the president a decent advantage in his bid for re-election.
The reasons to expect this about-face are partly ideological: People like Larry Fink at BlackRock, Jamie Dimon at J.P. Morgan Chase, Brian Moynihan at Bank of America, and Lloyd Blankfein and Gary Cohn at Goldman Sachs are all social liberals who largely support the president's agenda on health care, taxes and the environment. That's why they like Mr. Bloomberg so much—he's Mr. Obama without the rhetoric of class warfare.
But backing the president is also good business. ....
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
No wonder Wall Street needed a bailout. If they think Michael Bloomberg should run for President. He couldn’t even carry New York City.
“...the big bankers are planning once again to return to Mr. Obama’s side for 2012. Maybe not to the same degree as in 2008, when Goldman Sachs employees gave more donations to the Obama campaign than any other organization except the University of California. But enough to give the president a decent advantage in his bid for re-election. “
I didn’t “love” my TI in basic training either, but I damn sure abided by his rules.
Eisenhower is famous for warning America about the Military-Industrial Complex. Well, it seems to me that the Government-Financial Complex is a bigger problem. Goldman Sachs pretty much owns this country, and used the power of the US government as a collection agency. That's not a good thing.
Many of those people probably belong in prison.
“The occasional dressing-down notwithstanding, the president and his administration are still seen by many on Wall Street (and Main Street) as being on the side of Wall Street. Or as one senior J.P. Morgan executive told me recently under condition of anonymity: “We may be pissed at Obama, but when it comes down to it, he was pretty good for our business.”
LOL, what idiots. They think they can find a candidate that wants these things without the "class warfare" rhetoric. Hey morons, health care, taxes and even the environment are all fronts to advance Socialism, which is class warfare at its core. The goal is to simply take money from people like you and give it to people without money, and to demonize people like you to build popular support. The old adage, "A capitalist will sell the rope to hang him." is true with respect to these idiots.
The clever boys on Wall Street think they have a better chance with crony capitalism than they do with fair competition. They know can’t compete by simply being better then the competition.
“Wall Street leaders know that despite the public chastising and name-calling (”fat-cat bankers,” etc.), and July’s signing into law of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, they’ve benefited disproportionately from Mr. Obama’s policies.”
The Democrat Party is not the party of the little guy - it is the Party of Big Government. Big business donates more to the Democrat Party and socialist causes than to conservative interests. Why? The reason is not a desire to make the world better. The reason is profit. Established businesses, wherever possible, will attempt to point rulemaking, tax policy, environmental concerns or outright prohibition to their competitors to protect thier business position. Big Government solutions protect established businesses best.
examples? Look at the quote above. The all prefer statist solutions because they are "easier to trade." Predicting what a government will do is much easier than predicting what a free market will do. They invest in government through contributions to realize a bigger return on their trades.
Established businesses fear lesser government because it opens them up to very uncomfortable competition. But the more competiton there is, the the more innovation, capital formation and decreasing prices you get. Companies that invest in human capital and plant thrive in an atmosphere on innovation. Everybody benefits, except for companies that depend upon Big Government to remain comfortably ontop of the pile.
RATS always point to Republicans as being close to corporate fat cats. On Wall Street though, it’s the other way around. These [people make money using the LAW AND REGULATIONS. They are the MONEY GUYS and they love the RATS becasue they can manipoulate the system to guarantee profits. It’s easier to change the law than it is to compete. Goldman, Morgan and the rest of them are RATS NESTS. Who wrote the financial regulations? THE BANKS.
These guys need their asses handed to them.
It’s funny that not one person was put on trial for any crime during the past few years of massive mortgage fraud. I knew there was a reason Berry put a sleazy bank owned moron like Holder in charge of the DOJ. I wonder if the republicans will do what needs to be done? The corruption won’t end until the crooks are put in prison.
When the next meltdown comes along 0 won’t be able to push through another TARP (even though it was Bush who was bamboozled the first time). This new congress will have none of it.
Wall Street should have been allowed to wither in late ‘08 and we would now be much further along in the debt unwinding process and gotten rid of a bunch of crooks at the same time.
Ditto for states like California who jumped from the frying pan into the fire on Tuesday and will eventually be looking for bailouts.
Bankers understand that Dodd-Frank has written 'too big to fail' into law. So do the tea partiers.
The bailout-addicted pseudo-capitalists are terrified that the Tea Party movement will stop Too Big to Fail.
The public (and even more so Huffington Post readers) may think that Dems are a threat to Wall Street, but Barny Frank has been one of their best buddies.
Both parties are bought and paid for by the corporate and financial elites, i.e., the ruling class.
Quite simply, the government is continuing to practice financial fascism. The new health care bill will require us to buy specified health insurance, whether it is appropriate for us or not. Government-run ads encourage people to buy tickets in government-run lotteries, where the expected value can be less than one-sixth of the ticket price.
Yet the new financial reform bill will make it illegal to invest in a new venture or start-up company for anyone who does not have a liquid net worth of $2.2 million or an annual income of roughly $450,000 if single or $675,000 if married - which rules out all but fewer than 1 percent of the population. Signed into law, Congress and the president will be saying to the American people, "Ninety-nine-plus percent of you are too stupid to know how to invest your own money." (snip)
The 1,300-page financial reform bill will, in essence, make the biggest banks (those considered too big to fail) wards of the state - which is classic financial fascism. The Obama Treasury, not the semi-independent Federal Reserve, will decide what these banks are allowed to invest in, in exchange for an unlimited US government guarantee. Since September 2009, banks have been lending more to the government than to private industry. One does not have to be a rocket scientist to see where all this is headed. Read more at washingtontimes.com
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CIRCA Sept 15, 2009 A SHOCKING DISPLAY OF OBAMA'S THIRST FOR POWER FOX News' Judge Napolitano notes: if implemented, the unconstitutional proposals Obama urged in his Sept 2009 speech to Wall Street will amount to a final coup d’état by banksters, their technocrats and enforcers, at the Federal Reserve (*the privately-held bankster cartel that masquerades as a government agency).
Obama's "reforms" would install a dictatorial regulatory power controlled by international bankers oer the entire US economy — down to the local grocer and hot dog vendor on the corner. It will control our lives down to the smallest detail. It will require us to ask permission for the most mundane and routine of financial transactions. IT MUST BE BE RESISTED AT ALL COSTS.
VIDEO LINK AVAILABLE Judge Andrew Napolitano On Obama/Bankster Takeover
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Bwaney's sucking up where Chris Dodd left off---hoping to snag the big buck financial donors who no longer will contribute to the tainted Dodd. (Dodd dropped out when he could not raise the millions needed to run again.) Read on.
Cong Frank lauds Dodd's fight for US financial watchdog: Chairman of the Financial Services Committee Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass), attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Frank emerged from a two-hour banking meeting, and made it clear that governments were now calling the shots after spending billions to bail out the industry.
SEN DODD'S CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS FROM FINANCE INDUSTRIES
Citigroup, $310,294;
SAC Capital Partners, $282,000;
United Technologies, $263,400;
AIG, $224,678;
Bear Stearns, $205,600;
St. Paul Travelers, $205,400;
Royal Bank of Scotland, $203,750;
Goldman Sachs, $175,600;
Morgan Stanley, $155,000;
Credit Suisse, $154,550;
Merrill Lynch, $134,950;
The Hartford, $94,350;
Bank of America, $91,300;
JPMorgan Chase, $129,150;
USB, $101,900;
Hartford Finance Services, $101,500
Lehman Brothers, $128,400;
KPMG, $113,100;
General Electric, $108,250;
Deloitte Touche, $108,000
It is a truism: Big business loves big government.
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