For several years, it was widely acknowledged that newspaper ownership was dominated by the so-called oligarchs, who acquired controllinginterests in a number of titles.
The Maloofs have since sold their Coors beer distributorship, and the crushing debt on the Palms forced the family to turn over controllinginterests of the Las Vegas casino to creditors.
Better still: ensure that such protection is not needed, by using the law to align the interests of controlling shareholders with those of tiny investors.
The CFTC also proposed to limit the ownership of clearing houses, exchanges and trading systems by banks and major swaps dealers to 20%, which the banks are disputing as they have economic interests in the controlling the derivatives trade.
Times not only shows the deep discounts minority interests are given compared with controlling stakes because the investors have no say in how the teams are run.
The body given the task of controlling slots at London's airports is a company called Airport Co-ordination Ltd, which represents the interests of the major airlines.