In a rare moment of candor in Washington, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois once admitted that “the banks . . . frankly they own this place.” He was referring to that uniquely undemocratic institution known as the Senate. Here in the city of Oakland, we have our own way of describing the same problem.  We paraphrase, More

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