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The combination of high-powered connections and freedom from legal restraints makes Barbour uniquely valuable to corporations involved in what economists call "rent-seeking."
The lesson is not that Americans are more cynical and apathetic than the Brits about influence peddling (how marvelous it is that they still rage at the rent-seeking and small-bore sleaziness we take for granted ...)