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Via Mother Jones, Life is Grand on Wall Street<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The largest banks are larger today than when Obama took office and are returning to the level of profits they were making before the depths of the financial crisis in 2008, according to government data. Wall Street firms \u2014 either independent companies or the high-flying trading arms of banks \u2014 are doing even better. They\u2019ve made more profit in the first 2\u00bd years of the Obama administration than they did during the entire Bush administration, industry data show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Mother Jones, Life is Grand on Wall Street: The largest banks are larger today than when Obama took office and are returning to the level of profits they were making before the depths of the financial crisis in 2008, according to government data. 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