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SOLD OUT: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America

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The report shows that, from 1998-2008, Wall Street investment firms, commercial banks, hedge funds, real estate companies and insurance conglomerates made $1.725 billion in political contributions and spent another $3.4 billion on lobbyists, a financial juggernaut aimed at undercutting federal regulation. Nearly 3,000 officially registered lobbyists worked for the industry in 2007 alone. The report documents the screwing...

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