“During the past decade, the region added 21,000 households in the nation’s top 1 percent. No other metro area came close. Big companies realized that a few million spent shaping legislation could produce windfall profits. They nearly doubled the cash they poured into the capital. The signs of the new Washington are everywhere — from the Tiffany store that Fairfax County (Va.) development officials boast is the most profitable in the country to the new Tesla dealership in Tysons Corner. A company called Strategas has built an index to track the stock performance of the 50 companies that lobby the most; last year, that index outperformed the rest of the market by 30 percent.”
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