This week, the too-big-to-fail bank lobbyist Jose Manuel Campa has been nominated to be the new head of the European Banking Authority – the very authority that is in charge of supervising those powerful banks. For Duncan Lindo this is yet another sign of how little the crisis changed our financial system.
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