Glass-Steagall Act of 1932/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Glass-Steagall Act of 1932.

U.S. banking legislation that changed lending laws and released U.S. reserves of gold. Intended to be an inflationary reaction to the worsening Great Depression but was not successful.