The Glass-Steagall Act is a piece of financial legislation that dates to the Great Depression and has been partially dismantled but remains strikingly relevant today. The act has popped up repeatedly ...

SHARMINI PERIES: It’s the Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. Earlier this month, President Trump reiterated his commitment to a campaign promise that he made last ...

On Thursday, a group of financial experts and historians met at AEI to evaluate the Glass-Steagall Act and the extent to which it can address current and upcoming challenges in American finance. Paul ...

The letter from Bill Sandry (May 20) blaming the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 for the financial meltdown that began in 2007 is another in a long series of Republican/tea party ...

Deck: A federal bill will change the rules for financial firms–the industry considers the fallout. The Financial Services Act of 1999 making its way through Congress last week will repeal the ...

The Glass-Steagall Act was a Depression-era measure that helped clean up the financial sector by forcibly separating commercial and investment banks. Politicians aren’t expected to know the ins and ...

Last week, Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs executive who is the head of Trump’s National Economic Council and, supposedly, a figure of growing influence in the Administration, told a group of ...

Bill Clinton was supposed to devote Tuesday’s keynote address at the Clinton Global Initiative to the prospect of the planet’s population reaching the 7 billion mark later this year. But the former ...

The S&P 500 was trading at 8.26 and the Dow closed the day at 82.09. In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to complete a non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. In the U.S., the Great ...