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The power-shift towards finance became self-reinforcing. Financial institutions deployed their increased lobbying power successfully against the legal barriers between speculative and retail banking [...] This drew creative effort and investment into the monetary system itself, and away from the productive economy for which monetary systems in theory exist.

referring, obviously, to Glass-Steagall (introduced 1933; repealed 1999)

—p.158 Enclosure in the computer age: the magic of control (146) by Bob Hughes 7 years, 2 months ago