Think of this: despite taking office in the midst of a massive financial
meltdown, Obama’s administration has not prosecuted a single
heavy-hitter among those responsible for the financial crisis. To the
contrary, he’s staffed his team with big bankers and their allies.
Under the Bush-Obama bailouts the big financial institutions have
feasted like pigs at the trough, with the six largest banks borrowing almost a half trillion dollars from uncle Ben Bernanke’s printing press. In 2013 the top four banks controlled more than 40 percent
of the credit markets in the top 10 states—up by 10 percentage points
from 2009 and roughly twice their share in 2000. Meantime, small banks,
usually the ones serving Main Street businesses, have taken the hit
along with the rest of us with more than 300 folding since the passage
of Dodd-Frank, the industry-approved bill to “reform” the industry.
-- Joel Kotkin, "The Screwed Election: Wall Street Can't Lose, and America Can't Win" (The Daily Beast).