Measures to regulate money and the influence it brings to those who spend it in US elections have failed. Campaign finance laws were crafted for a different era and in any case were gutted by the Supreme Court. The net effect is to leave US democracy poorer and special interests more powerful than ever before. By the way, I had wanted to play ABBA’s Money Money Money at the end of this episode but something went wrong. So perhaps you might like to hum it instead.

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