# Professor Richard Sylla shares lessons from past elections and their impact on financial markets

1 Faculty News November 16, 2016 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wealthtrack.jpg?itok=qpbUO4Ww)>

Excerpt from [WealthTrack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OtzDRxRMDY) -- "\[Theodore Roosevelt\] was very independent and a lot of the republican leadership didn't trust him. The republicans were the business party. Teddy Roosevelt was a trust buster and so he kind of alienated some of his own party by pursuing large corporations and breaking them up. They thought a good republican president should be pro-business... so he was somebody who bucked the center of his party."

[Watch the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OtzDRxRMDY)