•Review the civic reactions in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008. Though the financial crisis nominally ended in 2009, it affected civic discourse for many years later—this is a regularity of financial crises. •Exercise concepts in the political economy of financial regulation. What explains the sustained controversy over remedies to the financial crisis of 2008? From the vantage point of a decade later, how does the Dodd-Frank Act stand in the views of its proponents and critics? •Assess the problems exposed in the financial crisis of 2008 and the policy dilemmas around proposed remedies. How do proposed regulations address the problems, and what priorities do those proposals reflect? This case challenges the student to identify problems and prescribe appropriate remedies.