995b680446f86f380e91c728_pa1043c.jpg Paul Lachine

A Roosevelt Moment for America’s Megabanks?

Just over a hundred years ago, the US led the world in terms of rethinking how big business worked – and when the power of such firms should be constrained - by enacting the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Dodd-Frank financial-reform bill, which is about to pass the US Senate, does something similar – and long overdue – for banking.

WASHINGTON, DC – Just over a hundred years ago, the United States led the world in terms of rethinking how big business worked – and when the power of such firms should be constrained. In retrospect, the breakthrough legislation – not just for the US, but also internationally – was the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.

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