Financial-sector regulation — banking separation, capital requirements, cross-border activity rules, derivatives oversight.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
The Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Steagall Act) established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which began operations in January 1934 with a temporary $2,500 deposit guarantee, raised to $5,000 later that year. By insuring commercial bank deposits, FDIC ended the bank-run dynamics that drove thousands of failures in 1930-33 and is widely credited with restoring depositor confidence and largely eliminating panic-driven runs on insured institutions for half a century.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.