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in the United States that makes it rather a simple story.
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The simple story is that regulation mostly came in with
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the Progressive Era at the beginning of the century
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and reached its culmination at the time of the Great Depression
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and set up a lot of institutions that are still with us today.
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Then there was deregulation, which started around the 1970s,
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and the events we've seen--that we're seeing today
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--are outcomes of both the regulation and the deregulation.
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I want to start out with the origins of securities regulation.
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A critical point was a book written by Louis Brandeis,
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that's the guy that Brandeis University is named after.
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He was an author, a lawyer, then Supreme Court Justice,