Wall Street's Trillion-Dollar Decade

In just the past ten years, the biggest US banks made an eye-popping trillion dollars in profit. To help get our heads around that staggering number, we asked Bloomberg reporters Max Abelson and Hannah Levitt–who cover the world of Wall Street–to explain how banks were able to dramatically increase their profits in such a short time–and how it impacts the rest of us.

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