During the disastrous Obama administration someone wrote an article that was posted on FR about the huge number of green enterprises that had been backed by the administration that had failed. In it, they tracked the political donations of the companies and the individuals involved. All of them went to the Democratic party. One thing that caught my eye was how relatively small the donations were. Just a few percent. But in the political realm that amount was significant because of the colossal amount of money involved. The other observation was how personally rich the principals in these failed businesses became. Another observation was the China often came in and picked them up for pennies on the dollar. In the ultimate analysis, and from the perspective of the principals involved, the principals made far more money from failure than they stood to make from success. I think they were all failures by design. Everyone involved made out very well except the taxpayers.
I think Freeper Liz did some similar financial analysis links.