WASHINGTON (AP) - It is not about just bad banking.President Barack Obama's biting criticism of big banks frames the problem as a struggle between jobless, suffering Americans and banks making big profits and paying "obscene" bonuses.
It is typical American populism, and it aims to score political points in the midst of a weak economic recovery that is fueling public doubts about the president's own economic policies.
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