[Lonesome in Massachussets]

“Please, don throw me in dat dere briar patch, br’er ‘Bama.”

The “financial crackdown” is National Socialism, literally. Corporatism: firms which are nominally private, but effectively government controlled and protected. Those with contacts in Washington thrive, their competitors are strangled by the government.

[lentulusgracchus]

Those with contacts in Washington thrive, their competitors are strangled by the government.

I'd say your definition pretty much gets it, but you didn't mention the low-low-low rental rates on the interned labor-camp workforce or any of the other comps available to the connected.