Here's a chart (below) that depicts the growth of the financial oligarchy. Of particular note is how quickly the financial oligarchy has looted its way back to previous highs in profitability. How? It has used control fraud to hike taxes on the real economy. As with most forms of control fraud, our loss will far, far exceed their gain.
What makes this looting possible? Costless debt (from central banks), a free pass on usury, subsidies (bailouts), government collusion (no arrests, investigations, or meaningful new regulation after the crisis), mark to make believe valuation (a mechanism that allows banks to avoid realizing losses on worthless assets), government purchases of bad assets, and government guarantees (on all of the new bad "assets" of too big to fail banks).
How to read this chart from Deutsche Bank: It shows comparative growth (and not absolute valuations). Everything is baselined at 1970.
NOTE: We've built a totalitarian global parasite and it can tax you into poverty.