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Trading on Thin Air (2010)

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Posted by Films For Action on Mar. 12, 2012

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Trading on Thin Air explains the methods used by the financial oligarchy to extract the wealth of the nation and how the same strategy is being used to subvert a movement for conservation and sustainability and harness it to create the next big bubble.

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