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Elizabeth Warren: “Pundits talk about populist rage, as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class, but they…”

On the recordDecember 3, 2009
Pundits talk about populist rage, as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class, but they have it wrong. Families understand with crystalline clarity, that the rules that they have played by, are not the same rules that govern Wall Street.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren highlights the disconnect between middle-class struggles and Wall Street rules.

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