If you want to understand how we destroyed unions in this country, how we widened the income divide, how we stalled progress on climate change, and how corporate America bought the influence industry, you have to understand the story of Koch Industries.
Recorded 10/9/2019
Koch Industries is one of the largest private companies in the world, a sprawling conglomerate whose operations span the entire landscape of the American economy.
.Charles Koch and his brother David, who own roughly 80 percent of Koch Industries, are together worth $120 billion—more than Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett or Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Koch also has one of the largest, most well-funded lobbying operations in the United States—a political influence network that is arguably the most powerful and far-reaching operation ever run out of an American CEO’s office.
Christopher Leonard is a business reporter whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek.
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