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Wall Street firms are recovering. Their standing with the American public isn’t.
Executives at financial firms are less popular than Congress, lawyers and insurance companies. As they prepare to give out year-end bonuses, they risk another wave of public fury, according to a Bloomberg National Poll.
Two-thirds of Americans say they have an unfavorable view of financial executives. More than half say big financial companies are only out to enrich themselves and say they shouldn’t have received government aid. Most Americans don’t want to see bankers collecting fat checks if their companies were bailed out by taxpayers.
