Thank you so much, this is the by far the best interview I've ever heard with Anna.
I was particularly suprised by her saying that the practice of mergers should be substantially limited. I'll tell you that I have held the position for sometime that the practice of mergers should be outlawed. I personally think the only way for two companies to come together is if one of the companies can furnish all the capital necessary to purchase the other one. The idea of swapping shares of stock, I think is a inherently stupid and not fair to share holders. The act of merging is anti-competitive, leads to huge inefficiencies, leads to bad management, leads to companies "to big to fail", and is at least 75% of the problem of companies being "to big to fail". I love the fact that she has given me more support in my assertion.
I don't like it the same way that I don't like unions spanning across more than one company, such as the UAW or the Teamsters. The idea that a union can apply a uniform standard to multiple companies is pathetic. Different companies have different models, different customers, etc. employees should negotiate based on the conditions in their company, not based on the conditions of any other company. Multi-company unions are also anti-competitive, hugely inefficient, leads to bad contracts hurting their industry, etc.