This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, September 19th, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Americans distrust financial regulators about as much as they distrust Wall Street.

That's one of the big takeaways from a new Cato Institute Financial Survey,

Wall Street versus the Regulators, out today at Cato.org.

Authors Emily Eekins and The brook night discuss the findings.

How do Americans feel about the financial industry and the people charged with making sure the financial industry is treating people well.

Well, our survey reflects and is consistent with what most surveys out there find that people are wary of Wall Street. But what our survey also found

was that people distrust the financial regulators charged with overseeing Wall Street

as much as they distrust Wall Street as much as they just trust Wall Street itself.

So people don't really trust either Wall Street or the Wall Street regulators.

And Wall Street is just this term that is thrown around.

I heard, I think, Sharon Brown on the radio recently talking about how Republicans

always sighed with Wall Street. And it's like, well, what does Wall Street mean?

Is it a guy?

He seems mean.

Yeah, I think this might go to some of the results that we got,

which was that when you talk about Wall Street in general

people tend to have a negative feeling toward that but when we talk about the financial

industry you know there is Wall Street and there's Wall Street itself and there are

the institutions that are there.

But there's also the broader financial industry and there are people who are part of this,

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