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Obama should save the banks, not the bankers (video)
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Suburban Guerrilla — Thomas Ferguson, contributing editor at The Nation and a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, is also the author of Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems, interviewed by Jay Rosen. (via BeaulahMan) FERGUSON: It’s fair to say they are obsessed with the private financial sector. Now, there are various views about this. I’ve got a very definite one. I actually do campaign finance. I mean, what I actually do is political moneying. And so, I mean, I’m in the ...

Early bankster money is like a yeast infection
Corrente — Pure gold from the Real News Network; go read Susie for a partial transcript.

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