mr. rothkopf, is the u.s. on the right path, in your view, when it comes to the mix of business and government? >> guest: i think the u.s. has a lot of work to be done in this area. you'd know from just the recent presidential campaign where we spent $6 billion and that most of that money came in one way or another from companies or people who worked for powerful companies and was part of a bargain that exists in our society between special interest donors and their political beneficiaryies that their special interest will get pursued. and, you know, the it's the first big election since citizens uted where the supreme court ruled that speech was money, and, look, we're coming out of a period in which income inequality has grown more than ever in u.s. history, in which we've had gdp growth but job contraction. where social mobility is going down. and we have to ask ourselves as companies gain influence, push government off their back on a regulatory basis, grow in a kind of free wheeling way and all of a sudde