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Guests:
Nomi Prins, a senior fellow at Demos, a nonpartisan public policy think-tank and author of the forthcoming book It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street
Ellen Brown, an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles and author of "Web of Debt"
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