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S8 Ep4 | Constitutional Violation

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ExxonMobil's Failure to Distribute the Benefits Equitably

Steve Call is the journalist who wrote the book Private Empire about ExxonMobil. He spent years traveling to Chad and Equatorial Guinea and Venezuela to get a sense of how Exxon operated outside the US. What happens is that the elites that control the resource that produces sudden wealth don't distribute the benefits equitably, he says. "Sudden wealth distorts the patterns of investment in a country"

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