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« There is no wrong way to waste time | Main | Overweight teens will earn less » Once more unto the banks, dear friendsLast night we watched the always depressing Bill Moyers, where he interviews William Black, who led the S&L and Keating Five investigations. Black described the Obama administration's complete failure, and more importantly, lack of interest, in prosecuting banks that caused our current crisis (link, including summary, transcript, and video). And then as if on cue, this news this morning: The Justice Department is preparing a fresh round of attacks on the world's biggest banks, again questioning Wall Street's role in a broad array of financial markets. We shall see. I am sure Min will say i'm Charlie Brown running up to kick Lucy's football again. But maybe with both Holder and Obama thinking about their legacy, we'll see something more than trivial fines this time. Update: here's the Matthew Yglesias explainer on this. By fnord12 | October 7, 2014, 8:41 AM | Liberal Outrage |