Our concerns about mixing banking and commerce didn't begin with the Wal-Mart application; they were just amplified by it. The industrial loan charter represents a back door through which commercial firms are entering the banking business.
We're at a point where if policymakers (regulators and Congress) don't act, you run a real risk that the wall will crumble.
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