I am a capitalist, pure and simple. My comments here on pprune clearly indicate that I am in favor of letting the market make decisions.
I'm a believer in the capitalist system as well but a lot of the problems we have been created by the greed, immoral activities and policies of some board members.
This is the main reason for the current GFC...
there were forces at play that ensured any financial weakness displayed by AN would be exploited to provide opportunity for change that is still playing out today.
It's all too easy to blame someone else for the demise of a concern when poor management was the core problem to begin with.If there was no inherent problem then the other forces would not have eventuated or been able to have a significant effect....