Bringing Back Glass-Steagall Would Rebuild Shattered Confidence In Wall Street - Forbes


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Bringing Back Glass-Steagall Would Rebuild Shattered Confidence In Wall Street
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Investigations after the 1929 stock market crash revealed widespread conflicts of interest and outright fraud in the activities of financial firms leading up to the Great Crash. It was the worst financial catastrophe the country has ever experienced ...
Could Glass-Steagall Have Stopped JPMorgan Loss? NPR

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Wall Street Hellhound Puts JPMorgan's Loss in Perspective: Books - Bloomberg


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Wall Street Hellhound Puts JPMorgan's Loss in Perspective: Books
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(JPM)'s announced $2 billion trading loss into perspective, pick up Michael Perino's “The Hellhound of Wall Street.” This vivid reconstruction of former New York City prosecutor Ferdinand Pecora's investigation into the crash of 1929 shows how a ...

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Wall Street Hellhound Puts JPMorgan's Loss in Perspective: Books - San Francisco Chronicle

Wall Street Hellhound Puts JPMorgan's Loss in Perspective: Books
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s announced $2 billion trading loss into perspective, pick up Michael Perino's "The Hellhound of Wall Street." This vivid reconstruction of former New York City prosecutor Ferdinand Pecora's investigation into the crash of 1929 shows how a financial ...

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Billionaire Entrepreneur argues he's not a job creator - msnbc.com (blog)

Billionaire Entrepreneur argues he's not a job creator
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The deregulation of the big Wall Street investment banks under the repeal of the 1932 Glass-Steagall act turned our banking system into a giant casino for the big banks. In 2008 when the real estate boom went bust, bundled mortgage backed securities, ...

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Guess of honour - Financial Times

Guess of honour
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Only three days before the Wall Street crash of 1929, the American economist Irving Fisher claimed that the stock market had reached a “permanently high plateau”. Seventy years later James Glassman and Kevin Hassett's book Dow 36000 predicted that the ...

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How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform - RollingStone.com


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How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform
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By Matt Taibbi Two years ago, when he signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, President Barack Obama bragged that he'd dealt a crushing blow to the extravagant financial corruption that had caused the global economic crash ...

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London Evening Standard, Anthony Hilton column - Chicago Tribune

London Evening Standard, Anthony Hilton column
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Yet if there is one counter-intuitive lesson we could learn from that earlier period it is that once it had weathered the fallout from the Wall Street crash of 1929 and subsequent recession, the stock market performed extremely well.

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Wall Street history is peppered with preposterous pronosticators - Daily Press

Wall Street history is peppered with preposterous pronosticators
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Their heyday lasted until the 1929 Stock Market Crash, when the weight of their bellies caused them to lose their balance and topple out of their office windows and crash onto the street below. But Wall Street recovered and thrived, most of the time.

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