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The Takeover: Who’s Running This Country?

Matt Taibbi, Jane Hamsher and Robert Johnson discuss what can be done to take that power back from the financial institutions that have wrecked the economy and our democracy.

GRITtv

March 25, 2009

“The AIG bailout, in effect,” writes Matt Taibbi, “was Goldman bailing out Goldman…rich bankers bailing out rich bankers, using the taxpayers’ credit card.”

The bailout is as much about power as it is about money. Taibbi, Jane Hamsher and Robert Johnson discuss what can be done to take that power back from the financial institutions that have wrecked the economy and our democracy.

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