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A closer look at those at the top reveals a disproportionate role for rent-seeking: some have obtained their wealth by exercising monopoly power; others are CEOs who have taken advantage of deficiencies in corporate governance to extract for themselves an excessive share of corporate earnings; and still others have used political connections to benefit from government munificence – either excessively high prices for what the government buys (drugs), or excessively low prices for what the government sells (mineral rights).

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I think it's excessive Internet use in general, excessive video gaming, excessive new access to pornography.

But it's also, of course, to do with the massive crisis that followed excessive leverage, excessive borrowing in the private sector.

If it takes three men to hold a man down, to put him on a flight, one the public is on, that's excessive.

If the man died, that right there is excessive.

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