Questions - JP Morgan and Banks - May 14, 2012
71% Say Government Hasn’t Been Tough Enough On Wall Street
71% Say Government Should Let Big Troubled Banks Fail
36% Support More Government Regulation of Financial Industry
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National Survey of
1,000 Adults
Conducted May 14, 2012
By Rasmussen Reports
1* How closely have you followed recent news
reports about the JPMorgan Chase bank?
2* How would you rate
the federal government’s current oversight of the banking industry – excellent,
good, fair or poor?
3* Do you favor or
oppose more government regulation of the U.S. financial system?
4* Is it better for
the United States financial system to have more competition and less regulation
or more regulation and less competition?
5* Some people say that the largest banks and
finance companies are “too big to fail.” Suppose some of the largest banks in
the country reach a point where they can no longer meet their obligations.
Should the government let the banks go out of business or find a way to keep
them in business?
6* If the federal government provides
taxpayer funding to keep a company afloat, should the senior managers of the
company be replaced?
7*
Is the federal government more concerned with making Wall Street firms
profitable or making sure the U.S. financial system works well for all
Americans?
8* Who benefited more
from the government bailouts of the financial industry – Wall Street or the
average U.S. taxpayer?
9* Has the federal
government been aggressive enough in pursuing possible criminal behavior by
major Wall Street bankers?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling
Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence