There's a clear linkage to the financial crises, Ken. We're talking about multi-billion dollar corporations here and now they have additional powers to influence the political process even more than they have been.

I have a gut feeling that a number of second and third order effects that no one anticipated are going to arise from this decision. Some will be beneficial, some will not.

In one sense, I guess this good because it does introduce an additional amount of transparency to the donation process. But on the other hand, there was enough concern over this kind of donation policy a century ago that the Supreme Court had to get involved and make it illegal.