Bernie Supporters - would you vote for Hillary if she won the nomination?

The quote you provided from the first article is one that I've already said I agree with. That quote is also a very inaccurate representation of the article itself, which paints the repeal of GS as a major contributor to the economic collapse. Also, calling it an opinion article does nothing to differentiate it from the other two articles you presented, which both happen to be opinion pieces as well. Anyway, onto the second article and it's quote:

The 1999 changes to Glass-Steagall led to much bigger banks, but that was, at best, just one factor in the 2008 financial crisis.

I'd say that was a pretty big factor, considering it was their massive size that led the government to consider them too big to fail. This resulted in a perverse incentive to take undue risks, because any rewards are privately held and the downside risk is being dumped onto the taxpayer. Not to mention it greatly increased the amount of people the economic collapse affected.

As for your third article, this is what you quote:

So the overall, decades-in-the-making decline of Glass-Steagall might have contributed to the financial crisis and its fallout, as it was part of the deregulatory push. But Clinton putting pen-to-paper on the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999 probably didn’t make any meaningful difference.

You left out a key piece of information a few paragraphs before this quote, however:

Take for example the poster child of the end of Glass-Steagall: The merger of Citicorp, a bank, and Travelers Group, a financial conglomerate, was announced in 1998 before Glass-Steagall was repealed. Even though this was the exact type of merger Glass-Steagall was intended to halt, the financial industry did not see many obstacles for the creation of Citigroup. "Citigroup and others wanted and got the repeal of Glass-Steagall in order to validate what they had already been allowed to do," said Simon Johnson, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

While GS was effectively being ignored by the merging banks, its existence meant that they could still be dissolved sometime in the future. The major lobbying incentive for banks seeking to appeal GS was to allow them to merge, thereby becoming bigger and more powerful. Here is what Obama had to say about it's appeal during his 2008 campaign:

“By the time the Glass-Steagall Act was repealed in 1999, the $300 million lobbying effort that drove deregulation was more about facilitating mergers than creating an efficient regulatory framework,” Mr. Obama said in a speech on the economy at Cooper Union in New York in March 2008. “Instead of establishing a 21st century regulatory framework, we simply dismantled the old one,” thereby encouraging “a winner take all, anything goes environment that helped foster devastating dislocations in our economy.”

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