Page "Securities Investor Protection Corporation" Paragraph 4

::" The economic function of the securities markets is to channel individual institutional savings to private industry and thereby contribute to the growth of capital investment.

Without strong capital markets it would be difficult for our national economy to sustain continued growth ... Securities brokers support the proper functioning of these markets by maintaining a constant flow of debt and equity instruments.

The continued financial wellbeing of the economy thus depends, in part, on public willingness to entrust assets to the securities industry.