But it makes perfect sense from a political point of view. For example, five federal agencies regulate banks, savings and loans, and credit unions. Why the duplication? Why put up with the consumption of extra resources, the inevitable turf wars, and the confusion over regulatory authority? Administrative orthodoxy would call for consolidating regulation of depository agencies under one federal agency. Yet the banking industry has successfully resisted all efforts to achieve such administrative concentration. Why? Seidman argued that the duplication allows commercial banks to pick their regulators according to the activity they engage in. Duplication, in short, shifts power from the regulators to the regulated, and the banking industry has had enough influence in Congress to keep the “eccentric” administration of banking regulations. It is not particularly efficient or effective, but it is a politically desirable (or at least acceptable) way to regulate depository agencies (Seidman 1998, 14).