Most of the figures came from the same organization that the Bush campaign cited in its video, the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group that tracks campaign finance trends.
He took in $70,000 from employees of Citigroup and $62,500 from workers at Goldman Sachs, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign finance trends.
"Big state, incumbent, likely to win, it's a great combination," said Robert M. Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies, a nonpartisan group based in Los Angeles that studies campaign finance trends.
The CFPB has made a habit of appealing to the public for information on consumer finance trends.
One clue comes from financing trends among foreign banks in Japan.
Current health-financing trends provide the option of a pooled mechanism for health insurance in the case of limited government funding.
"I'm a curious person, and I took it upon myself to look into finance and marketing trends," he said.
The awesomely affluent of high finance, if current trends continue, seem almost certain to survive the mess they've created -- with their wealth and power largely intact.
But the decline of quant fund assets nonetheless runs against what has been a powerful trend in finance.
In many ways, the finance center started the trend by sponsoring the exhibition of "Parade," a 341/2-foot-high 341/2-foot-high 341/2-foot-highnted in 1917 by Picasso.
