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Jamie Dimon’s Climate Corporatism

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  Jamie Dimon’s Climate Corporatism The J.P. Morgan CEO wants the government to seize land for wind and solar projects because rural landowners stand between his mega-bank and tens of billions of dollars in business. Illustration by Mary Bryce Deep Throat never said, “follow the money.” That phrase, which has become one of the most famous axioms in politics and journalism, was featured in the 1976 movie “All the President’s Men,” which  starred Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford. But that phrase  was not in the 1974 book of the same title  by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward that recounted their investigation into the Watergate debacle.  1   Instead, it appears the phrase was first used by an attorney named  Henry Petersen who testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 1974 . It then made it into the movie screenplay which was written by Woodward and William Goldman. Today, the phrase is part of our political vernacular. It has been used as the  title in a movie , as the title