Bethany McLean, Reuters

Explaining Bad Bank Behavior

Is wrongdoing is now built into the system, in part because of the decline of traditional banking and the merger of commercial and investment banking. And has  a tidal wave of government-backed money changed businesses that should be purely risk-based?

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