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debacle
on July 13, 2012
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The Market Has Spoken - and it is Rigged
The government has supported weak businesses run by cronies of political leaders since Ancient Greek times, and probably earlier.
mark_l_watson
on July 13, 2012
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I certainly agree with you that this is a long term trend but in my lifetime (I am 60) it seems to have become much worse in the last couple of decades.
debacle
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The sentiment has always been as bad, the problem is we have a complicit, apathetic populace and a much more organized and empowered aristocracy.
I can't help but feel that this situation has been engineered.
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