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"I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth - one shred of evidence." - Paul Volker (2009)All of us suspect the obvious - that Wall Street not only is too big to fail, but also just too damn big. But where's our evidence? It's one thing to direct our anger at financial elites and the top one percent. It's quite another to make a factual case that Wall Street, indeed, is much too big, and therefore should be radically reduced in size. So here's some data.
1950s (1950-1959): 4.17 percent[Source for these unemployment numbers ]
1960s (1960-1969): 4.44 percent
1970s (1970-1979): 3.26 percent
1980s (1980-1989): 3.05 percent
1990s (1990-1999): 3.2 percent
2000s (2000-2009): 1.82 percent
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