oligarchy

• “The word oligarchy is from the Greek words for "few" and "rule".”

  The Big Picture

• “The word oligarchy is from the Greek words for "few" (ὀλίγios olígios) and "rule" (ἄρχeiv arkhein).”

  Jonathan Farrington's Blog

• “Another consequence of such default, Todd says, would be freeing economies and governments from control of what he calls the "oligarchy" of mega-rich investors whose fortunes and interests drive and shape bond markets -- and whose gain through safe government securities have influenced political leaders into building up huge public debt in the first place.”

  Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion

• “And what manner of government do you term oligarchy?”

  The Republic of Plato

• “But that first age of banking oligarchs came to an end with the passage of significant banking regulation in response to the Great Depression; the reemergence of an American financial oligarchy is quite recent.”

  The Quiet Coup

• “Therefore, an oligarchy is actually a form of shared dictatorship in which the people have a limited role in the government.”

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• ““Corporate oligarchy is a form of power, governmental or operational, where such power effectively rests with a small, elite group of inside individuals or influential economic entities or devices, such as banks, commercial entities that act in complicity with, or at the whim of the oligarchy, often with little or no regard for constitutionally protected prerogative.””

  Think Progress » Former Bush speechwriter tells GOP: Democrats’ passage of health care is actually ‘our’ Waterloo.

• “The ugliest face of the Latin American oligarchy is now standing alone against the world, showing its contempt for democracy and for its own people.”

  Johann Hari: The Other 9/11 Has Returned to Stalk Latin America

• “These are features which are similar to a Latin American oligarchy --- a so-called banana republic.”

  The American Empire is Failing �� A Good Thing for America and the World

• “—Writing FictionSuddenly, you were planting some yellow petuniasoutside in the garden,and suddenly I was in the studylooking up the word oligarchy for the thirty-seventh time.”

  Billy Collins at Iolani

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