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Lindsay Renick Mayer

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US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street

by Greg Gordon , Lindsay Renick Mayer

Californie (Etats-Unis) | 17 January 2011

In the United States’ footsteps, many countries also adopted costly recovery plans during and after the 2008 financial crisis. As Greg Gordon and Lindsay Renick Mayer point out, the blueprint for such plans was imposed on Congress by the very banks which benefited from them most, with the (…)

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Lobbyists Buy Congress

by Lindsay Renick Mayer

Californie (Etats-Unis) | 25 November 2010

If, from a democratic viewpoint, the U.S. Congress is the most corrupt institution in the world, it is irreproachable on the criminal level. In a perfectly lawful way, interest groups have spent 32 523 dollars for every day Congress was in session and on each legislator to buy his vote. An (…)