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“The Clinton administration’s Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA) of 1999, also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act, is probably the most illustrious example of this deregulatory frenzy: this repealed the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933, which separated commercial and investment banking and is widely credited with giving the United States 50 crisis-free years of financial stability. With the passage of the Financial Services Modernization Act, commercial banks, investment banks, securities firms and insurance companies were once again allowed to consolidate. Today, many consider the repeal (followed in 2004 by the lifting of the leverage cap on US investment banks) to be an important cause of the late 2000s financial crisis.”
― William Mitchell, Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World

“In the knowledgeable realm, the form of the good is the last thing to be seen, and it is reached only with difficulty. Once one has seen it, however, one must conclude that it is the cause of all that is correct and beautiful in anything, that it produces both light and its source in the visible realm, and that in the intelligible realm it controls and provides truth and understanding, so that anyone who is to act sensibly in private or public must see it.”
― Plato, Parmenides

“[T]he human being (and so all finite beings generally) becomes human only among others. Self and other stand in a relation of potential reciprocity.”
― Johann Fichte

“There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.”
― Max Tegmark, Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality