Banking inquiry limited by its legal structure

Has the banking inquiry given us any answers about the roots of the crisis? Only sort of

After 164 witnesses, hundreds of hours of public hearings, hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and no small measure of controversy, the Oireachtas banking inquiry concluded the public phase of its investigation last week. At this juncture, the question must be asked: are we any the wiser about what happened during the financial crisis? The answer is yes, but it is a heavily qualified yes.

The evidence of certain key witnesses who ...