Klaus, I'm happy to see you did some research. Thanks for the copy & paste from wikipedia. The main point was it separated commercial and investment banking. Doing away with it opened the door to commercial banks to speculate. Speculate they did. They got it wrong. Thanks to the American tax payer and the repeal of mark to market accounting most are all still in business.
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WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot writes:
Klaus,
I'm happy to see you did some research. Thanks for the copy & paste from wikipedia. The main point was it separated commercial and investment banking. Doing away with it opened the door to commercial banks to speculate. Speculate they did. They got it wrong. Thanks to the American tax payer and the repeal of mark to market accounting most are all still in business.
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