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Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street to see the group as superconsumers, able to carry consumer demand all on their own.

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Naomi Klein
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 5
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