In our book 13 Bankers, James Kwak and I emphasized a combination of the rising role of campaign contributions, the revolving door between Wall Street and Washington, and, most of all, an ideological shift towards the view that finance is good, more finance is better, and unfettered finance is best.
Le corollaire est clair : la voix et les intérêts des pauvres ne comptent pour rien dans la politique américaine.