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The authors argue that the banks' oligarchic power stems from the size and concentration of American finance.
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The choice of Mr Yanukovich as president would be neither a disaster nor a breakthrough for Ukraine's oligarchic political system.
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There is no obvious reason why an oligarchic structure could not prove equally long-lasting in the U.S., once it took hold.
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The economy has morphed into the worst kind of statist system, in which bureaucratic and oligarchic elites exert excessive control and curb competition.
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The elevation of the extremely wealthy to oligarchic status is happening differently today, but the outcome of that elevation could follow a similarly disastrous course.
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Rather, it functions by balancing several oligarchic groups within the system.
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Parties were not seen as true representatives of society as they grew oligarchic, independent from the will of the people, and too often tied to particular interests.
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Conversely, art market supply is mushrooming to meet oligarchic demand.
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As for politics, the Olympics was nothing if not a pageant of parochial hatreds and city-state rivalries, often laced with class antagonism, where oligarchic states like Sparta clashed on the running track with democracies like Athens.
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