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FT.com / Weekend / Reportage - America’s phobia of banks

naked capitalism found this 5/16/2009 on ft.com

Andrew Jackson appears on the $20 bill Unaccustomed as they are to being told to stand in the corner wearing dunces’ hats, American bankers, so it’s been reported, are getting grouchy about the “stress tests” inflicted on them by the Treasury as a condition of receiving bail-out funds. They ...