Another esteemed member of the Hall is Steve Wynn, who got the nod in 2006. Wynn is currently the toast of political conservatives across the US for what was dubbed his ‘epic’ rant against President Barack Obama during a conference call with investors last Monday. Wynn referred to the Obama administration as “the greatest wet blanket to business and progress and job creation in my lifetime … Those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the President … It’s Obama that’s responsible for this fear in America … The business community in this country is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he’s gone, everybody’s going to be sitting on their thumbs.”
While conservatives are bulk emailing Wynn’s words with the same glee they usually reserve for Photoshopped images of the first lady as a banana-eating gorilla, none of them seem all that interested in quantifying Wynn’s wounds. So how bad have things got for the Wynnster? On Oct. 22, 2007, right before the subprime mortgage crisis kicked off, Wynn Resorts shares peaked at 164.65. This week, Wynn shares closed at… 165.25. Seriously, how does that bastard Obama sleep at night?
While it’s true that Wynn now derives the majority of its income from its non-US operations in Macau, the graph below essentially dovetails with both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indices. In other words, for big business in America, it’s business as usual. So quit your whining, Wynnie.