With the elections drawing nigh, the topic of financial regulation will have many people’s blogs boiling. Since the Great Depression in 1929, the U.S. has experienced an assortment of financial catastrophes and victories. It’s how the nation has responded to these events with financial regulation and deregulation that has caused a division in the masses. But two things are certain: with such global influence, the stakes are high for the U.S., and the events over the last 80 years have shaped the financial regulation landscape into what it is today. Read on in this infographic, created with Mint, to see how the process has taken place.