executive branch

"Another reason economies are impossible to model involves the messy presence of human beings. Financially massive organizations warp the environment they inhabit much like the way gravitationally massive bodies warp space-time in physics: Normal rules do not apply to them. Giant companies influence Congress, the executive branch, and local governing bodies to pass legislation they want—granting them subsidies, protection, environmental relief, favorable tax status, and so on—and otherwise treat them in ways that are perfectly legal, but outside what the equations of economics predict."

"Despite the public image he cultivated during World War II, Kaiser certainly did not fit the Progressive model of businessmen fighting against government. Nor was Kaiser out to "capture" government agencies with which he dealt, as New Left history might suggest. Instead, Kaiser learned to compromise with the desires of executive branch officials at the same time he was attempting to influence them through skilled use of the media. The Kaiser story was of neither battle nor capture, but rather a process of continuous negotiation."