These images speak for themselves. By overlaying when one of FDR’s signature laws was repealed by Citigroup lobbying and Clinton on top growth in banks, lobbying, etc., you can see how big banks have been allowed to get. Lobbying in the years leading up to 1999 for the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act repealed G-S), which sought to protect people’s commercial deposits from being fodder for risky investments, was successful at helping to create new kinds of mergers and new kinds of bigness in the markets.