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Weekends: A Future for the Left w/ Nina Turner

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Defense Contractors and the Stock Market

i think that it would be wrong, or a mistake to discount how much of an impact our military spending has on the shares. If your portfolio is heavily invested in defense actors, andy u remember about the top ten % is overwhelmingly invested in the stock market rate,. i think that that alone is a pretty significant incentive to just kind of turn a blind eye to constant, increased military spending year after year, after year. And so there's a huge issue with how the, you dot, the free market doesn't necessarily decide, right? Sometimes things can be a set up or rigged in a way where actions by humans will decide.

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