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Monday, January 21, 2013
A Fed Voice, Asking to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
``That may sound like a return to the Glass-Steagall Act, the Depression-era law that separated investment banking and commercial banking until it was dismantled in 1999. But Mr. Fisher's plan is more sophisticated than Glass-Steagall, in that it recognizes how complex big financial institutions have become. Glass-Steagall concerned only old-school banking businesses, like making loans, and Wall Street businesses, like trading stocks. Today's financial behemoths are in so many different businesses that a top-to-bottom restructuring is required. ''
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