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  • noun The study of wealth.

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Examples

  • Then there's his heroically loathsome deputy Neel Kashkari, who pressed Paulson to start paying attention to the mortgage crisis only by deploying the profoundly warped analogy of the Iran hostage crisis, wherein if they failed to act to stave off the destruction wrought by Bush Administration plutonomics, Obama would be the guy who got credit for actually doing something about it (as Ronald Reagan was credited with bringing home the hostages).

    Goldman Sachs Fraud Suit: The Populist Veneer 2010

  • Then there's his heroically loathsome deputy Neel Kashkari, who pressed Paulson to start paying attention to the mortgage crisis only by deploying the profoundly warped analogy of the Iran hostage crisis, wherein if they failed to act to stave off the destruction wrought by Bush Administration plutonomics, Obama would be the guy who got credit for actually doing something about it (as Ronald Reagan was credited with bringing home the hostages).

    Goldman Sachs Fraud Suit: The Populist Veneer 2010

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