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Corporate State
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Wealthy Cabals Run America: This Is What Our Democracy Looks Like
Oligarchs aren’t even trying to hide their influence any more, as groups of millionaires determine education policy, communications policy, agriculture policy, monetary policy, and whatever other policy you can think of.
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The Citadel Is Breached: Congress Taps the Fed for Infrastructure Funding
The portal to the Federal Reserve's stream of riches has been forced open, if just a crack – the trickle could one day become a flow, a mighty river of liquidity powering the engines of productivity of a vibrant economy.
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Who Do They Represent: Davos and Its Threat to Democracy
It’s hard to keep a straight face when the world’s rich arrive annually in their private jets to the luxury ski-resort of Davos to express their deep concern about growing poverty, inequality and climate change.
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Meet the "Emerging Market" Superstars of Global Economic Governance, Part II
Integration into the existing power structures of global economic governance requires, first and foremost, ideological capitulation: to accept the market system as the ideal form of the global economic order.
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Meet the "Emerging Market" Superstars of Global Economic Governance, Part I
Introducing Agustin Carstens and Raghuram Rajan: one is Mexican, described by the Financial Times for his “Wall Street-sized reputation for financial wizardry,” and the other is Indian hailed by India’s Economic Times as “the Poster Boy of Banking.”
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Richest 62 Billionaires As Wealthy As Half the World's Population
The vast and growing gap between rich and poor has been laid bare in a new Oxfam report showing that a handful of elites own as much wealth as the poorer half of the global population.
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How the Wealthy Are Ruining American Health Care
Corporate lobbyists and wealthy activists dictate much of American politics today – and nowhere is that clearer than in the political battle over the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, where uber-wealthy donors impair access to healthcare.
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To Put Bankers Behind Bars, Spanish Citizens Take the 1% to Court
Along with the infamous former politician and criminal bank chief Rodrigo Rato, 66 other Spanish bankers and politicians will face trial in 2016 for crimes committed before and during the financial crisis.
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“The Big Short” and Bernie’s Plan to Bust Up Wall Street
Not only is Adam McKay's movie a good way to understand how the big banks screwed millions of Americans out of their homes, savings, and jobs, then got bailed out by taxpayers – but a lesson in why they’re on the way to doing all this again.
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All Or Nothing: Why the 0.1% Are The Real Terrorists
These 16,000 individuals have as much wealth as 80% of America – and have mastered the art of tax avoidance while 2.5 million children experience homelessness every year, and two-thirds of U.S. families don't have enough money for basic repairs.
