We are sure of one thing: Google's lobbying expenses had no effect on the care, diligence or analysis of the agency's incredibly hardworking staff or on the decisions reached by any of the FTC's five commissioners.
Dan Culloton, associate director of fund analysis at Morningstar, says investors should look for funds with low expenses and pick fund managers with long, consistent track records of success.
We deliberately used gross income rather than net income in our analysis because the latter figure is so easily manipulated by studio accountants, with marketing expenses treated differently for almost every film.
But rather than risk honest analysis of what MPs are for and what they are worth, they improvised a solution by treating expenses as a way of topping up their income.