Jimmy Dore equates the mafia economy to a business partnership where the partners deliberately drive an enterprise into bankruptcy after siphoning off the profits for their own gain.

“they would take the liquor in the front door and they would take it out the back door and sell it again and then after the place went bankrupt they just burned it for the insurance money”

Chris Hedges claims that a mafia economy consists of unregulated financial institutions and private equity firms that extract wealth from society, eventually leading to a mafia state.

“a mafia economy is the big are the big Banks Goldman Sachs uh you know these are criminal organizations uh we saw that in 2008 for which they were of course never held to account they were bailed out by Obama and everybody who got fleeced by these big Financial concerns”