Sydney Morning Herald: The 4 Business Gangs that Run the US !

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  The four business gangs that run the US! 
  by Ross Gittins, The Sydney Morning Herald’s Economics Editor, http://www.smh.com.au/ 
  IF YOU’VE ever suspected politics is increasingly being run in the interests  of big business, I have news: Jeffrey Sachs, a highly respected economist from  Columbia University, agrees with you – at least in respect of the United  States.
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  In his book, The Price of Civilisation, he says the US economy is  caught in a feedback loop. ”Corporate wealth translates into political power  through campaign financing, corporate lobbying and the revolving door of jobs  between government and industry; and political power translates into further  wealth through tax cuts, deregulation and sweetheart contracts between  government and industry. Wealth begets power, and power begets wealth,” he  says.
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  Sachs says four key sectors of US business exemplify this feedback loop and  the takeover of political power in America by the ”corporatocracy”.
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  First is the well-known military-industrial complex. ”As [President]  Eisenhower famously warned in his farewell address in January 1961, the linkage  of the military and private industry created a political power so pervasive that  America has been condemned to militarisation, useless wars and fiscal waste on a  scale of many tens of trillions of dollars since then,” he says.
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  Second is the Wall Street-Washington complex, which has steered the financial  system towards control by a few politically powerful Wall Street firms, notably  Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and a handful of other  financial firms.
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  These days, almost every US Treasury secretary – Republican or Democrat –  comes from Wall Street and goes back there when his term ends. The close ties  between Wall Street and Washington ”paved the way for the 2008 financial crisis  and the mega-bailouts that followed, through reckless deregulation followed by  an almost complete lack of oversight by government”.
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  Third is the Big Oil-transport-military complex, which has put the US on the  trajectory of heavy oil-imports dependence and a deepening military trap in the  Middle East, he says.
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  ”Since the days of John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Trust a century  ago, Big Oil has loomed large in American politics and foreign policy. Big Oil  teamed up with the automobile industry to steer America away from mass transit  and towards gas-guzzling vehicles driving on a nationally financed highway  system.”
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