The connection between the general interest and the private interest of individual Americans has, if anything, become much stronger, even if their private interest is tied to a post office box in the Cayman Islands. Indeed, no private-equity fortunes were made over the past generation without investing in or trading with the prosperous North Atlantic industrial core of the world economy.
托克维尔的不朽名著距今已经将近两个世纪了。公共利益和个体美国人的私人利益之间的联系变得更加密切了，尽管他们的私人利益往往系于开曼群岛的某个邮政信箱。事实上，在过去一代人中，没有哪笔私人股权财富不是通过投资或与这个繁荣的北大西洋世界经济产业核心做交易得到的。