John Oliver on the Perils of Big Business Getting Bigger (Video)
The "Last Week Tonight" host discusses how corporations have turned the United States economy into an "oligopoly."
In the video above, “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver shows how politicians all along the spectrum pay lip service to the importance of small business in the U.S., even as corporations have been allowed to push through increasingly massive mergers, turning the country’s economy into an “oligopoly.”
— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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