Which private company was likened to an octopus in a famous cartoon, due to its monopolistic control over all major aspects of economic life in early California including banking, overland and overseas shipping, postal services, lumber, telegraph services, other wholesale industries, and of course, politics?

A key group in the rather long list of the 99% of Americans who felt they had been left behind in the wake of the financial bailout of 2008 and who were active in the Occupy Wall Street movement was ______.

a. military veterans b. college students c. upper-class workers d. social welfare recipients

People are harmed by globalization ______.

a. through the connectivity of communications b. through the diversification of industry c. through cultural homogenization d. through the production of more goods