John Tepper Marlin: BANKS CHANGE THEIR TUNE (HuffingtonPost)

Story date: 2008-02-24 10:29:51
Added on: 2008-02-24 23:09:18

The banking lobby used to sing "My Way" (1969) to get Congress to lighten up on regulation. In 1999, the lobby succeeded - in the name of financial innovation - in rolling back the very Glass-Steagall Act (1933) that was...


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