Economy

The Most Anti-Business Administration Ever!

Well, not really.

According to the Washington Post, Wall Street has experienced higher profits in the last two and a half years than during the entirety of the Bush Administration.

Wall Street firms — independent companies and the securities-trading arms of banks — are doing even better. They earned more in the first 2 1/2 years of the Obama administration than they did during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration, industry data show. [...]

The largest banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, earned $34 billion in profit in the first half of the year, nearly matching what they earned in the same period in 2007 and more than in the same period of any other year.

Securities firms — the trading arms of big banks and hundreds of other independent firms — have fared even better. They’ve generated at least $83 billion in profit during the past 2 1/2 years, compared with $77 billion during the entire Bush administration, according to data from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.

Now if only that darn Obama would get out of the way of business so they could hire people, we might be getting somewhere!

I can barely say that with a straight face.