Breaking up is hard to do, especially for banks

Big banks are having a torrid time of it these days First there was the financial crisis, for which most people blamed them, and now a spate of scandals that has cast the industry in an even worse light — an achievement that few would have thought possible a year ago

Indeed, the stink is now so bad that some people are calling for the re-introduction of Glass-Steagall, a post-Depression set of rules that erected a strict (and simple) divide between Main Street and Wall Street banks, or something similar And our readers agree — in our web poll last week, three-quarters of...