Economic Crisis - Leaders Have Earned Distrust, Says Study

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 14:35 in Mathematics & Economics

If you have a 401K, you've seen what happens when confidence abandons the stock market.   If people didn't trust financial leaders and institutions before, they certainly do not now.   Paola Sapienza (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University) and Luigi Zingales (Un iversity of Chicago Booth School of Business) have created the Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index and they have published the first set of results today.   They say their research shows just how deep America's declining trust runs and how strongly it contributes to the country's financial problems.The results do not speak well for confidence that more government programs are the solution. read more

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