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What did I want to say about "immense financial forces"?   That sometimes they drive the agenda--and sometimes they don't.

Many firms are now trying to deal with man-made global warming--how they can turn programs against it to their financial advantage. Virtually all of them fought the idea to start with--some still do. But the more astute have realized they can't win with just opposition--and that there is money to be made going with the flow.

They did not "control the ongoing agenda". They were forced to react.

Similarly Walmart would not have wanted their stores in China unionized.. But now they must deal with one. And Macroslop certainly did not want the EC fining them heavily---and possibly forcing them to change their way of doing business.

That's my point--to say that immense financial forces "control the ongoing agenda" is simplistic.

Sometimes they do, and sometimes not.