A year after the financial meltdown, Mother Jones magazine has put together a series of articles on the history, impact and consequences of the event, and it's sobering stuff.
Blogger Kevin Drum concludes:
A year after the biggest bailout in US history, Wall Street lobbyists don't just have influence in Washington. They own it lock, stock, and barrel.
And editor David Corn discovers that the public, far from reaching for the pitchforks, have been giving the bankers and the politicans an easy ride:
![[QODLink]](http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2012/2/11/2012211114212966734_16.jpg "Yusuf Raza Gilani")
