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Bernie Sanders: “Never before in American history have we seen such…”

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

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We all studied the Gilded Age, remember that? Rockefeller and Carnegie, all those guys, Much worse right now. Never before in American history have we seen such concentration of ownership. You got a handful of giant corporations owning one sector of the economy after the other. (06:02–06:10)

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