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How the financial industry is buying off Washington—and killing reform.
Gary Rivlin
Newsweek, 11 July 2011
Phi Beta Iota: Read every word. A blow by blow description of why Washington is as corrupt and pathologically ineffective at governance as any “failed state.”
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Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. – How the Working Poor Became Big Business