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Nor have the rich maintained that audible indicator, that quasi-English, quasi-lockjawed accent that the swells all had in Depression-era movies.
According to the NYT , congressional victories for the business lobby this past year included: repeal of Depression-era laws preventing banks, securities firms, and insurance concerns from entering one another's line of business, a five-year extension of the business R&D tax credit, no increase in the minimum wage, no regulation of health-care plans, no campaign finance reform, and no ban on agribusiness mergers.
Democrats and Republicans resolved to repeal the Depression-era Glass-Steagall law, which restricted the cross-ownership of banks, brokerages, and insurers.
The Post notes however, that unlike last week's Citicorp/Travelers move, which challenges Depression-era laws barring different types of financial services from being offered by a single company, this bank merger is within the boundaries of current law, because in 1994, Congress allowed coast-to-coast banking.
Both of these phenomena are legacies of Depression-era laws passed when Wall Street was purely an insider's game and individual investors really were at a radical disadvantage in terms of separating truth from lies.