That's an unsustainable balance, because it produces more anti-finance sentiment than is healthy.
The "finance sucks" sentiment may smack as abrasive or arrogant coming from Silicon Valley, but it's one that many are familiar with, especially in Startup Land — NYC or California.
Bio: Gary is the Head of Machine Learning Engineering at Bloomberg, leading projects at the intersection of computational linguistics, machine learning and finance such as sentiment analysis of financial news, market impact indicators, statistical text classification, social media analytics, question answering and predictive modeling of financial markets.
The headline on a recent blog post from a rival faction, the Gun Owners of America, singling out the N.R.A.'s exemption from the campaign finance bill, captured the sentiment: "The N.R.A. Sells out Freedom to the Democrats".
Dara Albright, a writer and crowd finance educator, echoed this sentiment, and drew comparisons to the financial ramifications of the UK's Brexit vote, which she argued was, like a Trump presidency, an "opportunity".
We will also spend considerable time fleshing out the implications of investor sentiment for corporate finance, macroeconomics, and public policy.
Earlier this week, German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble echoed that sentiment, saying "a catastrophe for Greece would be a catastrophe for Europe", although he today played down expectations of any "spectacular results" on Monday.
But he said there was a large "anti-finance and anti-rich" political sentiment in France that wouldn't help.
Sentiment about personal finances also rose, although more people are pessimistic about investing in stocks.
Seconding that sentiment was the French finance minister, Pierre Moscovici.
