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Topic: Vulture Capitalism

President Bush signs the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 in the Oval Office after the House passed the $700 billion financial bailout bill at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. | US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the widening coronavirus crisis on March 11, 2020 in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak/Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

Late capitalism primed us for pandemic

Bob Hennelly
A worker from the Cobra Energy Company, contracted by the Army Corps of Engineers, installs power lines in the Barrio Martorel area of Yabucoa, a town where many residents continue without power in Puerto Rico. (AP/Carlos Giusti)

Trump's half right about Puerto Rico

Chauncey DeVega

Jim Hightower
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Peter Frase - Jacobin
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