Trust Financial Institutions or #FinancialRegulation?
by Christian Stellakis on Dec 13, 2014 | Views: 375 | Score: 5
Amount of confidence in each institution ... A lot | Some | Not much | None | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Wall Street bankers and brokers | 4 | 31 | 29 | 32 |
Federal government's regulation | 9 | 31 | 34 | 24 |
The institutions where you do your banking | 44 | 37 | 9 | 9 |
% of Americans
Sources:
dealbook.nytimes.com
When it comes to finance, Americans express minimal trust in Wall Street brokers. We also are not very confident in our federal government's ability to regulate the financial sector. Interestingly enough, though, we place a great deal of faith in the institutions in which we ourselves place our money.