"On November 12, 1999, President Clinton signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
(GLB) into law. This landmark legislation does much to unravel the influence of
the Glass-Steagall Act on the United States' financial system. Now banks and
other providers of financial services have far greater freedom to compete
against each other. No doubt, the legislation will prompt an altering of the
financial landscape in this country."John Krainer, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Review,
2000
"what should you do to avoid being an idiot or a swine? Merely this: You should do something great, you should lay aside all the foolishness of a more of less long existence, you should become resigned to the fact that you will seem ridiculous to a race of janitors and bureaucrats if you are to enter the service of Splendor. Then you will know what it means to be the friend of God. The friend of God!"
Léon Bloy