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Jeff Connaughton: How Wall Street Buys Washington

October 9, 2012

Welcome back everyone! On today’s show former former Joe Biden policy advisor and Chief of Staff for former Senator Ted Kaufman, Jeff Connaughton discusses his new book The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins.

And we get an update on efforts to block the Keystone pipeline from Ron Seifert of the activist organization tarsandsblockade.org 

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