The toxic politicisation of financial regulation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Since the 2008 financial crisis triggered a global regulatory crackdown, the rule books that govern the world's banks, insurers and asset managers have been drawn into ideological splits between Republicans and Democrats, and Conservative and Labour in a similar way to gender identity and climate change.
50% : As Trump limbers up for his second run at the White House, aides have been drawing up alarming plans to seize direct control of the Fed.
19% : More infamously Trump openly sought to influence the Fed, when he repeatedly threatened to remove chair Jay Powell and demanded aggressive rate cuts.
19% : But at a time when Joe Biden is trailing Trump in key states extra publicity for a scandal involving a key regulatory ally like Gruenberg could also further damage the president's re-election hopes.

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