by Laura Conaway

Columbia, Maryland
Christopher DeWan

Red Hook, Brooklyn

Today's populist rage is brought to you by Andrew Ross Sorkin, in his NYT column headlined "Bank Profits Appear Out of Thin Air":

Why can't anybody read the room here? After all the financial wizardry that got the country — actually, the world — into trouble, why don't these bankers give their audience what it seems to crave? Perhaps a bit of simple math that could fit on the back of an envelope, with no asterisks and no fine print, might win cheers instead of jeers from the market.