Now the bankers’ triumph is complete | Joris Luyendijk
The UK release this week of the Oscar-nominated The Big Short, based on Michael Lewis's book of the same name, is a fitting bookend to a time when we still believed that the broken financial system might be fixed. But the banks have won. Not a single "top banker" has been jailed and few, if any, have had to return undeserved bonuses. Measures taken since 2008 are being watered down before our eyes and, most dangerous of all, the deeper causes of the crash remain essentially intact. The Occupy movement should call a reunion so we can have a ceremony to bury all remaining hope.
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