Charles Rangel, longtime Democratic Congressman from Harlem, is the poster-child for the way power corrupts.

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Now supply and demand dance on a wobbly scale, which corrupts price signals and misdirects capital and resources.

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Old fashioned words which never go out of date but which have become buried under the weight of money that corrupts the financial world.

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"The evidence of your dailiness corrupts that private moment, " she says.

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Is it literally a case of all power corrupts?

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Power corrupts, and digital power corrupts absolutely.

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The culture of money corrupts.

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And the barrel corrupts.

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