mr. gilder. as you know, the prosecution's case is focusing on the fact that many of the deregulations that occurred during the '80s and '90s led to behaviors that nearly bankrupted the nation. is it your view that if we go back to the legislative era that preceded those deregulations that companies would not be able to get capital from the capital market as has been alleged? >> i believe that during the heydey of venture capital and private equity and hedge funds that the united states led the world in industrial creativity, in job creation. we were the pioneering, exemplary capitalist force in the world, and today wall street has gone off a cliff. and epitomized by charles prince, you know, head of citibank saying he has to dance as long as the music plays. but the music he's listening to is the government georgia haven't, and that's true of all of wall street, and wall street has stopped funding the kind of companies that steve moore cited and is now involved in all sorts of currency speculati