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Bernie Sanders: “While profits on Wall Street and corporate America soar, a…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 09:28

How many bloody yachts do you need? But it's not just the outrage of massive income and wealth inequality. When you look at our economy today, you see more concentration of ownership. While profits on Wall Street and corporate America soar, a handful of giant corporations dominate sector after sector. Agriculture, transportation, energy, financial services, you name it. And when you have that kind of concentration of ownership, you got monopolies, you got price fixing, and we end up paying much higher prices than we should. (09:28–09:38)

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