Wall Street outdid the legal profession in raising money for Republican Mitt Romney, making him the first major-party presidential nominee in at least two decades who didn’t rely on lawyers as his biggest source of funding. The BGOV Barometer shows...
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Participants in the Occupy Wall Street protest, masked as President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney, take part in a rally to mark the one year anniversary of the movement in New York, Sept. 17, 2012.
Romney’s Wall Street Romp — Obama’s Courthouse Stomp
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The Morgan Stanley headquarters in New York.
Wall Street Hedged No Election Bets
With Republicans angry about the financial regulations pushed through by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, the securities and investment industry was the only major source of campaign contributions to switch sides in 2012 compared with 2008, giving a record...
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JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, left, and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein leave the White House after they and 13 other bank heads met with President Barack Obama in this file photo.
Wall Street to Washington: Seriously — Get it Together, Bankers Say
The titans of Wall Street have a message for their counterparts in Washington: Knock it off. Fifteen bank chiefs, including JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs Group, fired off a letter to President Barack...
Read more »Wall Street as Campaign Demon: One in 10 TV Ads Aired: $91 Mln
Every campaign season has its corporate demon. In 2002 it was Enron, in 2010 it was Lehman Brothers and BP. There’s a new scapegoat this year, with spending higher than ever. As we report on Bloomberg Television today, one of every 10...
Read more »Big Bird vs. Bernie Madoff: Sesame Street vs. Wall Street
Updated at 11:20 am and 12:05 pm EDT At a fundraising concert in San Francisco last night, President Barack Obama was still having fun with Republican Mitt Romney’s call in last week’s televised debate to cut funding for the Public...
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President Barack Obama takes the stage during a campaign event at in Fairfax, Va.
Obama’s Rebound: `Economy Has Come Too Far to Turn Back Now’
Updated with Romney reaction at 12:15 pm EDT “This morning we found out that the unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level since I took office,” President Barack Obama said today at a campaign rally in Virginia. “Today’s news...
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Tim Pawlenty during the Republican National Convention (RNC).
Pawlenty to Lead Banking Lobbyists
In politics, sometimes losing means winning: Tim Pawlenty is moving to “K Street.” Mitt Romney’s former presidential rival and current campaign surrogate is leaving his post as national co-chairman of the Republican’s campaign to head a Washington, D.C., lobbying firm,...
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Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren speaks during day two of the Democratic National Convention.
Elizabeth Warren: `Wall Street CEOs’ Still `Strut Around Congress’
Updated at 10:20 pm EDT Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor who set up a new federal regulatory structure for consumer protection in the financial markets and is running for Senate in Massachusetts, is taking the stage of the Democratic...
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"March On Wall Street South" demonstrators march in Charlotte, North Carolina ahead of the Democratic National Convention, on September 2, 2012.
Occupy Charlotte: Miniature Protest in the Heart of a Banking Giant
There’s not much happening here: A limited throng of protesters joined many more delegates converging on Charlotte today for the Democratic National Convention, as the city barricaded “Uptown Charlotte” streets for a march that attracted fewer people than organizers hoped...
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President Barack Obama participates in an interview with YouTube and Google from the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
Obama’s High-Tech Contributions Haven’t Offset Wall Street Drop-off
President Barack Obama’s effort to reach out to the high-tech community in order to make up for a drop-off in Wall Street campaign funding hasn’t really paid off. According to the latest analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics, a...
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