In the United States, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 was just 37 pages and helped to produce financial stability for the greater part of seven decades. The recent Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is 848 pages, and requires regulatory agencies to produce several hundred additional documents giving even more detailed rules.
立法复杂性也在显著增加。在美国，1933年的格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法案只有37页，而该法在70年的时间里保证了更大范围的金融稳定。而当前的多德-弗兰克华尔街改革和消费者保护法案有848页，监管机构还得在此基础上增加几百份文档以规定更为详细的规则。把所有相关规定都加起来，该法案总规模将接近30000页。