We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.
I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.
From my experience, there are so many regulations for investing in the United States that they become an impediment, a barrier to investing.
It should not be the government running the economy.
Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and because someone here believes that the good or service received in exchange for our dollars creates value for them.
The business of America shouldn't be subsidizing business.
Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.
Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
We're only going to invest our shareholders' money where we think they can get the kind of returns they expected when they invested their money with Exxon Mobil.
We don't have sales trading, brokerage, capital lending - any of those kinds of things that got some of the Wall Street firms a little bit in trouble.