The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Highlight

But this argument didn’t make sense with regard to individuals, and if you thought about it, it didn’t make sense with regard to companies, either. “You can’t just say, ‘We can’t indict because they’re too big’ and then just throw up your hands,” says Barofsky. “If a bank’s size is the only thing preventing you from indicting, making the bank smaller should be a condition of the settlement, so it doesn’t happen again. If you’ve got them by the short hairs, you’ve got to make them break up.”