Four out of the top contributors to the president's campaign hail from Wall Street -- Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, UBS and Goldman raised close to $2 million among them.
The decision was widely hailed on Wall Street and in Washington, DC.
When they were buying, the Rigas family was hailed on Wall Street for showing faith in the company.
All but one of the increases came in just a quarter-point increment, and most have been hailed on Wall Street as the last.
Some of her fellow census workers — some of whom hailed from Wall Street, some of whom ran their own businesses — were receiving their next-to-last week of unemployment benefits and had to move back in with their parents.
Mr. Wendt's appointment, which had been rumored for more than a week, was hailed by Wall Street analysts, who said that his experience and track record made him Conseco's best hope for a strong recovery.
Administration officials and others close to Mr. Geithner say it most likely was the Fed job that gave rise to the sense that he hails from Wall Street, along with the fact that his mentor at the Clinton Treasury, former Secretary Robert E. Rubin, previously headed Goldman Sachs.
For a year or two now, Sergey Brin Sergey Brin and Larry Page Larry Page have been hailed by Wall Street and the press, adored by fiendishly avid users and devoted investors, and all but worshipped by Silicon Valley colleagues and advertisers.
Many residents hailed the walls as protection from death squads and insurgents.
Hailed by his Wall Street backers as a visionary and pilloried by rivals and regulators as a reckless speculator, he has come to embody both the promises and perils of entrepreneurship in one of the economy's hottest sectors.
