Interesting to me that so many comments on this article spin into a slap down against governments. It is interesting how successfully the private sector and all their bought and paid for think tanks spin society into anti-government pro-business mode. With one we have compulsive disclosure of much of the detail of what goes on, humanly failing as it may be: with the other we get only slight insight into what is happening, and no insight at all when a company is not publicly traded. . With the one we can monitor, we get to periodically toss the rascals out, if we find it necessary. With the other, we have no say unless we are a shareholder and the biggest shareholders aren't controlling the company beyond our reach.  But we assume what we can't really see or control is somehow better than the what we somewhat see and control. It's called faith, and people are sold on it all the time by those who tell us to just trust them. And the folks who sell faith have much bigger sales budgets.