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Bernie Sanders: “Three Wall Street investment firms...are the major…”

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

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Joe Rogan and Bernie Sanders Discuss Economic Inequality, Automation, and Political Corruption

Published | Video Starts at 11:33

You got three Wall street investment firms. BlackRock. You're familiar with BlackRock, they're giant gardens. Eight Street. Exactly. Yeah. Check it out on Google. They are combined, the Three Wall Street investment firms...are the major stockholders of 95% of American corporations. How's that? That's not good. That's power. Right. How did that start? And what could have been done to stop that from happening? Well, I think it's, again, it's greed. (11:33–11:49)

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