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Professor Lawrence White on the implications of Glass-Steagall

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Excerpt from Washington Examiner -- "The Volcker Rule, criticized for its complexity, has already forced some megabanks to divest in ways they might not have had to under the late-stage versions of Glass-Steagall... The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act would go far beyond that, White said... The financial industry would survive, he said, but might not be safer. 'If Glass-Steagall, with all of its pristine beauty of 1933, had still been in place, nothing would have been different' in 2008, he said."

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