Caused the 2008 crisis the too big to fail banks and what enabled them to do that with deregulation. But wall street and its allies got rid of the laws the rules and even the cops on the wall street e. And id reached a crescendo in 2000. It took them about after 70 years think about this country knows how to control the finance sector and grow the real economy and grow the middle class. We did it for 70 years. And then deregulation came in reaching its height in 2000 on a bipartisan basis and seven years later we had the largest koreshan almost 80 years. Host are these banks paying since the financial crisis . We have seen the headlines over the years. They have accepted guilt for some circumstances, paying fines. Just last week we had five banks admitting guilty to manipulating currency exchanges and together we are fined 2. 5 billion. Heres what the attorney attorney general had to say Loretta Lynch. The cbc will pay considering the longrunning and egregious nature of a anticompetiti