"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
Spiritual pride leads to a lingering spiritual death. It turns the living being into a tomb, bright and polished on the outside, proudly ornamented with scrupulous attention to detail, and ostentatious adherence to the letter of the law — but inside full of corruption, and festering foulness. They love the rituals and the worldly forms of religion, but want nothing to do with mercy and love. It is a sickening romance with the self, unto death.
Jesse, Essere Umano, 20 August 2017