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: PR WatchThe Problem with the Revolving Door - It Brought Us Too-Big-To-Fail
By Mary Bottari
Tiffiniy Cheng is guest blogging this week. She is the campaign coordinator for "A New Way Forward" and founder of "Open Congress."
Bailouts and political connections go hand in hand according to a just released academic study. The study, which was conducted by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan researchers, shows concretely that lobbying, campaign contributions, and the finance/federal government revolving door has helped the most damaging banks despite the dangers they pose to our economy.
Full post as published by PR Watch on December 30, 2009 (boomark / email).
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