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I hope Obama brings back proper capitalism where shareholders get both the good and the bad. The last administration's socialised capitalism, where the shareholders and senior manglement get all the credit and money in good times but the market and the taxpayers get to bail them out in the bad times, was a bad deal for everyone bar those getting the bailout money.

The biggest thing though about Obama for me is that already relations have thawed towards America from so many different countries. Americans have no real comprehension about how much business America has lost over the last eight years due to other countries being treated badly and huge amounts of bad-will being built up. For example, one of the last things that the Bush administration rushed to implement before the inauguration was a 300% duty on French cheese!