You might have noticed that we’re not so into piling on the banks lately. First because we’re willing to concede that maybe, just maybe, working at a large financial institution whose actions affect the global economy is harder and more complex than we understand, and second because getting over-the-top worked up about bonuses and office renovations seems kind of counterproductive; all of the noise and smoke and screaming creates a giant distraction, and then politicians, being politicians, feel they have to respond to that instead of dealing reasonably with the larger problems at hand, and then people start saying stupid things and making bad decisions in the heat of the moment, and then they have to try to awkwardly extricate themselves the next day — it’s just exhausting, and we’ve seen enough situations like this in our own personal lives to know that this kind of volatility is no good in the long run.