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30
JUL
2013

The Daily Show on Goldman Sachs and the Aluminum Market

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Occasionally, we can laugh about the problems facing our society from uncontrolled commodity speculation. Here the Daily Show’s Jon Oliver talks about Goldman Sachs and its business in actual ownership of aluminum on a massive scale. Take a look.

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John Richardson is the Co-Director of the Initiative for Human Rights in Business at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law.

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