# The quiet Coup

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**Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-quiet-coup/73502/1 "2009-09-14T13:07:51Z")

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> **[The Quiet Coup](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/307364/)**
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> The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of...

read and then discuss… I think it ties a lot of things together really well.