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‘Greedy Bastards’ by Dylan Ratigan

By Ian Crouch

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  January 20, 2012

This summer Dylan Ratigan delivered a two-minute rant on his MSNBC show, attacking what he identified as the injustice of the country’s economic system and the cowardice of its politicians. With its brazen title and persistently indignant tone, “Greedy Bastards’’ takes up where that outburst left off. The financial industry comes in for the most withering criticism, but Ratigan finds waste and greed in many areas of public life, including health care, education, energy, tax policy, and trade.

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