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> Can you give recent examples of prior administrations doing this in the executive branch? From https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2017/08/03/unp
by zeveb 8y ago
> Can you give recent examples of prior administrations doing this in the executive branch?
From https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2017/08/03/unproductive-entrepreneurship-is-increasingly-common-in-america[0] https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2017/08/03/un...
> Jeffrey R. Brown and Jiekun Huang, two researchers writing for the National Bureau of Economic Research, use data from White House visitor logs during the Obama administration to show that corporate executives’ meetings with White House staff were associated with a bump in their company stock price, more government contracts and positive regulatory decisions. Firms that had better access to the Obama White House also experienced a large drop in stock prices when the 2016 election result was announced.
0: that URL might be familiar: it's the article itself