{"id":11689,"date":"2009-11-13T10:37:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T15:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11689"},"modified":"2009-11-13T10:37:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T15:37:34","slug":"robert-weissman-reflections-on-glass-steagall-and-maniacal-deregulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11689","title":{"rendered":"Robert Weissman: Reflections on Glass-Steagall and Maniacal Deregulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Robert Weissman<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_11691\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=11691\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11691\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11691\" data-attachment-id=\"11691\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=11691\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/clintonsignsglasssteagallrepeal.gif?fit=682%2C484\" data-orig-size=\"682,484\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"clintonsignsglasssteagallrepeal\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Clinton Signs Glass-Steagall Repeal&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/clintonsignsglasssteagallrepeal.gif?fit=300%2C212\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/clintonsignsglasssteagallrepeal.gif?fit=640%2C454\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/clintonsignsglasssteagallrepeal.gif?resize=300%2C212\" alt=\"Clinton Signs Glass-Steagall Repeal\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/clintonsignsglasssteagallrepeal.gif?resize=300%2C212 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/clintonsignsglasssteagallrepeal.gif?resize=150%2C106 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/clintonsignsglasssteagallrepeal.gif?w=682 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clinton Signs Glass-Steagall Repeal<\/p><\/div>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zcommunications.org\/zspace\/commentaries\/4042 \">November 12, 2009<\/a>)<\/strong> &#8212; Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the passage of the repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act and related legislation. It is an anniversary worth noting for what it teaches us about forestalling financial crises, the consequences of maniacal deregulation, and the out-of-control political power of the megafinancial institutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zcommunications.org\/zspace\/commentaries\/4042 \">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Weissman (November 12, 2009) &#8212; Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the passage of the repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act and related legislation. It is an anniversary worth noting for what it teaches us about forestalling financial &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11689\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-32x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11689"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11701,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions\/11701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}