Three steps to unmake the banks

Every once and a while — call it a decade or two, or three — the U.S. government finds itself wondering out loud what a bank is or ought to be. This is one of those times.

On paper, the American banking sector is doing well! You can’t throw a paper roll of nickels in any direction without hitting a “record Wall Street profits” headline.

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