Who’s profiting from the big bailouts
“The actual work is being contracted out to private companies — to Wall Street banks, to banks like Bank of New York, Mellon. In many cases these are the companies that are at the heart of the crisis itself.” –Naomi Klein on the similarities between the economic bailout and the Iraqi Coalition Provisional Authority
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