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Getting beyond Glass-Steagall

Congress is embarking on its third attempt in ten years of inter-industry battles to reform the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, a law that separates commercial banking from most forms of investment banking. Welcome though this is, the financial services marketplace has moved beyond any simple legisla...

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