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AlterNet / By Barry C. Lynn
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Mega Giant Corporations Are Very Bad for America

Wal-Mart delivers at least 30% and sometimes more than 50% of the entire U.S. consumption of products. Why the monopolization of our economy should scare you.

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Barry C. Lynn, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, is a business and political journalist. He is the author, most recently, of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction , from Wiley Press .

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