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Bernie Sanders: “Combined are the major stockholders in 95% of corporations…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Want to hear a fact? Yeah. You got three Wall street investment firms. BlackRock, State street and Vanguard. Vanguard, yeah. Who combined. Combined are the major stockholders in 95% of corporations in America. Go look at your favorite corporation, see who owns it. It'll be one of those. Who's the major stockholder? They'll be there. What do you think about that? That's power. (57:35–57:40)

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