Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations between commercial banks and securities firms. The repeal of the affiliation restrictions of the Glass–Steagall Act was an important cause of the late-2000s financial crisis which permitted Wall Street investment banking firms to gamble with their depositors' money that was held in affiliated commercial banks.
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