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Red Oak

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Thu Feb 4, 2016, 07:47 PM Feb 2016

They’re all bought and sold: American democracy belongs to the billionaires now

"With the lone exception of Bernie Sanders, every candidate is either in bed with Wall Street or super-rich himself"

From Salon.com, originally in TomsDispatch. Author is Naomi Prins.

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/02/theyre_all_bought_and_sold_american_democracy_belongs_to_the_billionaires_now_partner/

From Wikipedia on the author Naomi Prins: "Nomi Prins is an American author, journalist, and Senior Fellow at Demos.[1] She has worked as a managing director at Goldman-Sachs and as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns, as well as having worked as a senior strategist at Lehman Brothers and analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank. Prins is known for her book All the Presidents' Bankers in which she explores over a century of close relationships between the 19 Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt through Barack Obama and the key bankers of their day based on original archival documents."

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