From NYTimes
''When money is the primary source of power, the special interests win
hands down. They can create advantages for themselves. One way is
through the market mechanism – as monopolists did with railroads and
industrial sectors at the end of the 19th century.
Or they can
capture the government and use state policies to help themselves – for
example, by deregulating the financial sector and allowing excessive
risk-taking in big banks. The ability to take such risks hurts all
consumers and taxpayers while helping the special interests who get this
advantage.
In a brilliant satire,
Steven Pearlstein recently put his finger on a central problem:
powerful people want one set of rules for themselves and different, less
advantageous rules for everyone else. In modern America, Mr. Pearlstein
points out, the rich and powerful also like to complain a lot.''
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