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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (41611)	3/2/2010 2:18:06 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

And... a GREATER PERIODICITY for mass financial panics and failures and crashes is most certainly not* conducive to higher levels of either wealth or economic output.* 1 - There isn't a good reason to think that Glass Steagal reduced the occurrence or severity of financial panics/failures/crashes. In fact its just about as possible that it increased those things 2 - In direct terms its reasonable (but not certain) that a longer time between crashes (assuming the longer time doesn't result in a more severe crash) would help increase growth, but the actual methods to reduce the time between crashes can often reduce growth.