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By the nineties, large corporations and the Washington political establishment melded into a single firmament of power. The revolving door between corporate boardrooms, the halls of Congress, the White House, and the Federal Reserve disappeared, leaving a wide open corridor teeming with expensive suits and briefcases. Dugger ’s vision of corporate hegemony has become distinctly real.
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Magnuson, J. (2018). The Epic Crises of the Nineties. In: Financing the Apocalypse. Palgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04720-7_8
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