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About this resource
- Publisher
- Federal Reserve History
- Use
- Historical overview of a multi-part banking statute and its later evolution.
- Version
- Current historical essay
- Relevant parts
- Banking Act of 1933; separation and deposit-insurance provisions
- Link checked
- Aug 7, 2026
The source is used to disaggregate a familiar label. The Banking Act created and changed several institutions and restrictions, and later legislation did not erase the entire act. Students should ask which provision, institution, and date a speaker means when invoking “Glass-Steagall.”