Financials are up because boomer politicians are protecting the assets of the boomer electorate.
The right thing to do was to let these banks fail and let the few solvent institutions take their place. Let price drop down to normal levels.
At that point the survivors would be the younger generations who did no harm, and the adequately capitalized. Instead we are saving these leprous people and institutions who screwed themselves and others, at the expense of the moral.
these pols and boomers were afraid everything was going to go to hell...yes for the moochers and thieves it would be a permanent hell, for the outsiders it would have been temporary, followed by a normal economic experience.
the villians are holding us all hostage, gaming the system to get the price they want - one that supports themselves and screws the solvent and those without assets.