In general, we might not like red tape. But for government contractors, a boom in new regulations is creating new business opportunities. Bloomberg Government analyst Brian Friel has crunched the numbers. He’s found that the government spent, on average, about $10 billion in each of the last two fiscal years hiring contractors for work related to the new rules, and, there’s more work to be had.
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