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TIL The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, prevented commercial banks from trading securities with their clients’ deposits. The act eventually repealed during the Clinton Administration with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 which in turn caused the 2008 financial crisis

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