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Max’s latest piece on Huffingtonpost.

Obama met with banking industry ‘titans,’ as the Washington Post calls them.

Instead of handcuffing them and bringing them up on charges of fraud and racketeering, however, Obama asked the bankers politely to try to restrain themselves from spending their ill-gotten gains so conspicuously (isn’t that what the ring leader always tells the others after a heist in the movies)?

** Read the rest here  (and leave some comments there at HuffPo!)**

And for an entertaining reminder of how clearly we laid out the unfolding events, make sure to check out “Whitey is doing a runner” from 2005.