The portions of the Banking Act of 1933 related to preventing mergers between commercial and investment banks are often known as the Glass-Steagall Act after its congressional sponsors. In addition to establishing the FDIC, the Act protected consumers by keeping these two very different banks separate. The 2008's financial crisis would have been significantly less harmful if the oversight from the Glass-Steagall Act had still been in place.
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