AUSTIN — Here in Alan Greenspan's America, tearing down the protections put in place after the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929 is all in a day's work. Ignoring the wisdom acquired at enormous cost and pain, we're just walking right over what's left of the laws that were put in place in the 1930s to save capitalism from itself. April 7's papers report the Bankers Trust New York Corp. is set to buy Alex Brown & Sons Inc., the nation's oldest brokerage firm, thus ending the Glass-Stea ...

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