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agumonkey on Sept 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: France, Germany, Italy, Spain seek to base taxes o...

Is this new ? USA split Rockefeller empire which was unbelievably huge too.

wslh on Sept 10, 2017 [–]

Yes, it is new because it is global, Rockefeller was a local phenomenon. Before you have monopolies per country and now these monopolies (or call them as you want) are centralized in US.

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