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  • In the meantime, I'm waiting to see if and how the plutocrats of Russia will change their image as "Oligarchs"- not very democratic is it.

    Robert Lenzner: Plutocracy;The Rich Elite And The Rest Of Us Robert Lenzner 2011

  • In the meantime, I'm waiting to see if and how the plutocrats of Russia will change their image as "Oligarchs"- not very democratic is it.

    Robert Lenzner: Plutocracy;The Rich Elite And The Rest Of Us Robert Lenzner 2011

  • In the meantime, I'm waiting to see if and how the plutocrats of Russia will change their image as "Oligarchs"- not very democratic is it.

    Forbes.com: News Robert Lenzner 2011

  • I think the problem we face is that the same guy who oversaw the looting of Russia by the Oligarchs is the guy advising Obama on Economics.

    Matthew Yglesias » Battle Lines on Banking 2010

  • The Oligarchs are a type of Robber Baron but without the warm and fuzzy side displayed by John D. Rockefeller in establishing Standard Oil.

    Is There Hope for Russia? 2004

  • The Oligarchs are a type of Robber Baron but without the warm and fuzzy side displayed by John D. Rockefeller in establishing Standard Oil.

    Archive 2004-08-01 2004

  • The Oligarchs are a type of Robber Baron but without the warm and fuzzy side displayed by John D. Rockefeller in establishing Standard Oil.

    Who's Yer Daddy? Bill Clinton? 2004

  • They pretend that the Southern slaveholders are an exclusive class, who have somehow managed to control the government ever since the adoption of the Federal Constitution; and although the country has continued to prosper under the rule of these so-called Oligarchs, they yet seem to entertain the most direful forebodings relative to our future progress, unless the Oligarchs can be deprived of all their political influence.

    Social relations in our Southern States, 1860

  • Massachusetts, is owing solely to the temporary ascendency of what you are pleased to call the Oligarchs: and you seek to console yourself and your friends, with the pleasing anticipation of what wonders the old Bay State will perform when her time comes to wield the sceptre of empire and destiny.

    Social relations in our Southern States, 1860

  • As the middle classes have been impoverished by currency debasement and are ignorant of history, they now, in their desperation, are turning to a similar group of thugs and supposedly patriotic leaders known as public servants and big business, aka Oligarchs, which support the government interests rather than that of the public and their customers.

    Safehaven 2009

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