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by Andrew Ross Sorkin · 14 Oct 2025 · 664pp · 166,312 words
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The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century
by Geert Mak · 27 Oct 2021 · 722pp · 223,701 words
available to anyone and everyone. In that same period, in the spirit of neoliberalism, almost all restraints on banking were cast aside. In America, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 had protected savers for more than half a century by drawing a firm distinction between supposedly safe retail banks and risky investment banks
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place name Gesinnungsethik (‘ethic of conviction’) 288 gilets jaunes 400–1, 512 Gimson, Andrew 387, 393 Glasgow, Lord David Boyle, 7th Earl of 421–2 Glass-Steagall Act (1933) 158–9 Glenny, Misha 392 Glitnir 161 globalization 14–15, 27, 36–7, 68, 146, 166, 301, 302, 305, 307, 316, 373, 375, 410
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, 238, 240; exceptionalism 24; Federal Reserve 166, 182–3, 234–5, 516, 517; financial crisis (2008) and 158–60, 164, 165, 166–7, 174–5; Glass-Steagall Act (1933) 158–9; Globus III and 7–8; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, leaves 7; Iraq War 69–71, 76; Marshall Plan (1948) 21, 43
The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
by Robert B. Reich · 24 Mar 2020 · 154pp · 47,880 words
feet—collaborating with big businesses in order to boost their profits (the National Recovery Administration); constraining them with tight regulations (the Securities and Exchange Acts, Glass-Steagall Act, Fair Labor Standards Act); making it easier for workers to unionize and forcing companies to negotiate (National Labor Relations Act). Many of these CEOs had
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banks. A related Depression-era rule erected a strict wall between commercial banking (collecting deposits and making loans) and investment banking (making bets), called the Glass-Steagall Act. By the mid-1980s, as the stock market took off courtesy of Carl Icahn and the other raiders, people like Weill and Dimon noted that
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was…he wanted to be C.E.O. and I didn’t want to retire,” Weill said of Dimon. A few months later, after the Glass-Steagall Act was repealed and Rubin stepped down as Clinton’s Treasury secretary, Weill recruited Rubin to be chair of Citgroup’s executive committee and, briefly, chair
Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm · 10 May 2010 · 491pp · 131,769 words
the 1980s onward, tight regulations of the financial system instituted during the Great Depression were phased out or eliminated. The most notable casualty was the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. Part of that landmark legislation had created a firewall between commercial banks (which took deposits and made loans) and investment banks (which underwrote
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of all financial crises—the chain of disasters known as the Great Depression—sparked radical reforms of financial systems internationally. In the United States, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 created federal deposit insurance and established a firewall between commercial and investment banking; subsequent legislation gave the Federal Reserve the power to regulate
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rise of the United States as a global superpower. At the same time the U.S. government reined in financial institutions with legislation like the Glass-Steagall Act and shored them up by creating agencies like the SEC and FDIC. The dollar became the ballast of an extraordinarily stable international monetary system, and
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General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, The (Keynes) Germany banks in easy money from IMF and savings in surpluses in Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry Glass-Steagall Act (1933) global economy dangers to future of imbalances in Roubini’s predictions for see also specific topics global governance globalization future of “global savings glut
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 5 Oct 2015 · 424pp · 121,425 words
business men and financiers” by enacting wide-reaching activity restrictions and antitrust rules. Roosevelt and key legislators like Carter Glass and Henry Steagall (of the Glass-Steagall Act) also passed reforms to prevent destructive bank runs and to separate riskier investment banking activity from deposit-taking and lending. The federal government would provide
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. These rules imposed a separation of traditional banking activities, such as lending and deposit-taking, from commercial activities, such as securities underwriting and brokering. The Glass-Steagall Act, the pillar of the New Deal banking reforms, thus entrenched the doctrine of “separation of banking and commerce” in U.S. banking regulation.82 The
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minimize the moral hazard effects of such insurance and to protect the insurance fund from losses. Banks operated conservatively and bank regulators, unchallenged, enforced the Glass-Steagall Act and other New Deal regulatory mandates. During this time, the regulatory goal of bank stability and the policy goal of reducing bank size and influence
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on bank expansion, repealed Glass-Steagall barriers between banking and securities activities, and allowed the formation of large financial institutions. The slow demise of the Glass-Steagall Act brought with it more powerful and more profitable banks. But that was the point. Regulators were admittedly trying to do anything in their power to
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Inaugural Address,” Washington, DC, March 4, 1933, National Archives, accessed March 19, 2015, www.archives.gov/education/lessons/fdr-inaugural/images/address-1.gif. 82. Glass-Steagall Act (Banking Act of 1933), Pub. L. No. 73–66, 48 Stat. 162; Grossman, Unsettled Accounts, 247–248. 83. Lawrence Chistiano, Roberto Motto, and Massimo Rostagno
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, 22, 23, 25, 59, 109, 156 General Motors Acceptance Corporation, 176 Georgia, 130, 159 Germany, 187, 213, 243n79 Ginnie Mae, 18 Glass, Carter, 44, 46 Glass-Steagall Act, 46, 52, 54, 61, 145, 246n104, 248n131 Goldman Sachs, 57, 60, 109, 165 Gold standard, 38, 39. See also currency, specie-backed Gouge, William, 29
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, 118–119 Reagan, Ronald, 53, 60 Redlining, 47, 50, 90, 154, 163 Reforms, banking: during Great Depression, 44–48; in New Deal era, 45–48; Glass-Steagall Act, 46, 52, 54, 61, 145; during civil rights era, 49–50; banks’ opposition to, 59; and postal banking, 190; by Roosevelt, 204–205; in political
The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
by Robert Scheer · 14 Apr 2010 · 257pp · 64,763 words
plunged the country into the Great Depression. That is when government stepped in to create a series of regulatory structures—from the FDIC to the Glass-Steagall Act—to serve as a corrective to protect the American people and American business. Instead of reasonable changes in regulation that protected the public interest while
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that the regulatory status quo was outmoded and onerous—even socialist—hobbling business growth. The top target in their sights was the New Deal-enacted Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, signed into law by President Roosevelt, which regulated the financial services industry. Key to its effectiveness was the seemingly simple wall it erected
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Banking Act of 1987, only after criticizing it for not only failing to tear down the Glass-Steagall walls but, worse, temporarily extending “the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act restrictions on securities activities to state-chartered, non-member banks for the first time.” He made it clear he was signing the bill despite his
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markets were self-regulating. As Chapter 2 highlighted, perhaps the most important target of this mania was the granddaddy of New Deal banking legislation, the Glass-Steagall Act, designed to prevent another Great Depression and to rebuild trust in banks. Glass-Steagall was designed to protect both the savings and the loans of
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for insurers, banks and Wall Street firms were huddling with Congressional banking committee staff members to fine-tune a measure that would update the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act separating commercial banking from Wall Street and insurance, to make it more politically acceptable to more members of Congress.” How could novelty-obsessed Americans not
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pieces of legislation approved during the Clinton years at Rubin’s urging. The first was the Financial Services Modernization Act (FSMA), which gutted the historic Glass-Steagall Act and allowed Citigroup to become a sprawling leviathan—so giant that in the fall of 2008 it was deemed too big to fail by a
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economic crisis. According to the complaint, “The banks named as defendants evolved into their present structure in anticipation of and after the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in ’99, which allowed financial enterprises again to offer both commercial and investment services—a practice which had been outlawed for 60 years.” The complaint
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the Presidential Economic Recovery Advisory Board, headed by Volcker. Wolf was upset when Obama recently endorsed Volcker’s proposal for restoring the spirit of the Glass-Steagall Act by separating investment from commercial banking. They needn’t have been overly worried. There wasn’t much possibility of restoring Glass-Steagall after Obama wasted
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.htm. 28 “Ronald Reagan’s dream of carrying out a sweeping”: Richard Hornik, “Shortening the Tether on Bankers,” Time, August 17, 1987. 29 “the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act restrictions on securities activities”: Ronald Reagan, Statement on Signing Competitive Equality Banking Act of 1987, August 10, 1987, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php
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Obama administration role in AIG bailout benefiting Goldman General Accounting Office study of unregulated derivatives General Electric/General Electric Capital (GE) Gensler, Gary Gillespie, Ed Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 described economic crisis as consequence of repeal and Obama economic plan replaced by FSMA restrictions extended by Congress (1987) reversal supported by FIRE
Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
by Nicholas Lemann · 9 Sep 2019 · 354pp · 118,970 words
for years—prepared the ground for the new banking laws that sailed through Congress at the outset of the New Deal. The passage of the Glass-Steagall Act, which forbade banks that accepted deposits from underwriting stocks and bonds, forced the Morgan bank, previously private, nearly unregulated, and active in all forms of
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, were for deregulation in a general way, though some of the specific changes felt like setbacks because they chipped away at the privileged position the Glass-Steagall Act had given the firm back in 1934. What all the changes, as they emerged from Washington one by one, noticed by bankers but not by
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Markets,” whose energies were devoted mainly to planning the further deregulation of the financial system. At the top of its list of targets was the Glass-Steagall Act, the landmark 1934 law that had put the collapsed American banking system back on its feet and established a basic system of rules that functioned
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Unfinished Business
by Tamim Bayoumi · 405pp · 109,114 words
type of “market” risk—losses coming from a fall in the price of these assets. This contrasted with the United States where the Depression Era Glass–Steagall Act continued to separate commercial banking from investment banking (other members of the Basel Committee fell between the wide universal banking model in Europe and the
The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street
by Jonathan A. Knee · 31 Jul 2006 · 362pp · 108,359 words
who ran it were, in the best tradition of Pierpont Morgan, stubborn, hardheaded, and imperious; accustomed to leadership, unaccustomed to challenge.”1 When the 1930s Glass Steagall Act forced J. P. Morgan to choose between being an investment bank or a commercial bank, it had considered securities underwriting as an unreliable “byproduct business
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by George Packer · 4 Mar 2014 · 559pp · 169,094 words
president. In his second term, Clinton would prove it by moving in the opposite direction, supporting the deregulation of banks, including the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, and preventing financial derivatives from being regulated. For now, though, he stood fast. The Senate passed the securities litigation bill in spite of the president
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’s really going on underneath all the semiotic codes and cultural conventions, and everybody supposedly knows what paradigms everybody … US BANKS UNLEASHED Imminent Death of Glass-Steagall Act Will Create Giant US Financial Firms … The United States seems keener than most countries to celebrate the new millennium in style: maybe the nation is
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out in later years.) The same was true of Gramm-Leach-Bliley, passed by Congress and signed by Clinton in 1999, which repealed the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act and allowed commercial and investment banking under one roof. (Yes, Rubin vocally supported Glass-Steagall’s repeal, mainly because the wall between commercial and investment
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world, was projected onto a screen with the red umbrella, and Sandy Weill was all smiles (he had talked to Clinton and knew that the Glass-Steagall Act, the only legal obstacle to the deal, would be repealed). Nelini didn’t know what a merger was, but at school the next day she
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