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DENVERPOPS

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9. I seem to have read

Tue Apr 29, 2025, 05:28 PM

Apr 2025

that Hedge funds have taken over Walgreens, so maybe they also will join the other companies.....

I have felt all along it is the Corporations we had to worry about.

Orwell 1984 warned us of Government.......when he should have warned us about Corporations......

The United State of America will soon be re-named: The Corporate States of America, or The Corporate Tyranny of America.....

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Isn't profit the goal of every business ? MichMan Apr 2025 #36

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I never knew they got public financing of the debt. I always thought it was banks taking the risk MichMan Apr 2025 #47

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