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...Despite widely televised Congressional hearings in recent weeks on financial reform, 75% of those polled expect Wall Street to return to dangerous activities. Americans clearly want action: some 62% believe financial regulations need to be tougher, and 67% want the government to force pay cuts on top executives at Wall Street firms that received government bailout money. It's a bit of a turnaround for a country that has been leaning toward the less-regulation-is-better model of government. Yet most people are still wary of giving Washington too much say in running businesses. The majority...
Welcome to Round 2 of Main Street vs. Wall Street. The divide is the worst I've seen in my 40 years of writing about finance. In a new TIME poll, 75% of the respondents say they believe Wall Street will revert to business as usual, 67% want the government to force pay cuts, and 59% want more government regulation. (See a PDF of TIME's exclusive poll data...
...also angry because it's hugely difficult for even the most qualified people to get mortgage loans. Not to mention how hard it is for small and medium businesses. Having lent too much too easily, banks now don't want to lend at all - except to Uncle...
...other words, you don't want to be in the business of manufacturing clothes - you want to be in the business of designing them. "Our economy is different in a thousand ways from the hunter-gatherer societies we studied, but they may be similar in one critical way," says Bowles. "Whether you're forming a hunting party or a team of software engineers, what matters is your creativity and your ability to make connections with others...
...Read TIME's recent cover story, "What Women Want...