I would argue that the most powerful forces on earth are governments - not corporations.
Compare the billions of fraud in the UN Oil for Food Program to Enron. The former dwarfs the latter.
Remember, government power is the power of the gun. It is force and coercion. Corporate power requires shareholders, employees and customers - these relationships are voluntary.
Certainly, corporations need to be held to standards of law. The recent fraud scandals are a lesson which we must take to heart. We do have laws against fraud - let's prosecute the guilty without hampering the efforts of honest people via over-correction.
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