Have the Mega Banks Put the U.S. on Course for Another Crash? The Answer May Reside in Nomi Prins' New Book

``The hefty hardcover deserves instant classic status for two reasons: like no other tome before, it explains through original archival material why the mega Wall Street banks are coddled by Washington and have been allowed to survive a century of public looting -- because they are considered an essential financial component of the U.S. war arsenal.''