Month: October 2011

CEOs Prefer Romney as GOP Candidate, Cain Rising Fast | ChiefExecutive.net | Chief Executive Magazine

CEOs Prefer Romney as GOP Candidate, Cain Rising Fast | ChiefExecutive.net | Chief Executive Magazine.

 

CEOs prefer Mitt Romney as the GOP’s presidential candidate next November, according to an exclusive poll from ChiefExecutive.net. Over 43 percent of CEOs chose Romney as their preferred candidate while 25.6 percent chose another CEO candidate, Herman Cain.

Romney and Cain are the two clear front-runners, followed by John Huntsman, who received 8.1 percent of CEO support. Newt Gingrich received 7.3 percent of the vote, Rick Perry had 5.1 percent, Ron Paul had 2.6 percent, Rick Santorum had 2.1 percent and Michelle Bachmann took just 0.9%.

Wall Street’s Gullible Occupiers

 

 

Peter Wallison: Wall Street’s Gullible Occupiers – WSJ.com.

There is no mystery where the Occupy Wall Street movement came from: It is an offspring of the same false narrative about the causes of the financial crisis that exculpated the government and brought us the Dodd-Frank Act. According to this story, the financial crisis and ensuing deep recession was caused by a reckless private sector driven by greed and insufficiently regulated. It is no wonder that people who hear this tale repeated endlessly in the media turn on Wall Street to express their frustration with the current conditions in the economy.

Their anger should be directed at those who developed and supported the federal government’s housing policies that were responsible for the financial crisis…