BusinessWeek on the repeal of Glass-Steagall

The implications of the new law [the repeal of Glass-Steagall] are enormous. For instance, like other deregulated businesses, a merger frenzy of potentially unprecedented scale and scope is likely to be unleashed in the financial-services industry. Regulators rightly worry that these new behemoths will be considered too big to fail, encouraging their managements to throw the dice by lending recklessly throughout the global economy. These companies would profit handsomely if the gambles pay off, and taxpayers pick up the tab if they don't -- shades of the 1980s savings-and-loan crisis.

~ BusinessWeek Online, "Goodbye Glass-Steagall, Hello Big Mergers -- and Big Fees?," October 29, 1999