The new controller of BBC2, Roly Keating, hot from highbrow BBC4, is a promising indicator of corporation thinking.
This frame may lead some corporations into thinking that that they can consider corporate sustainability when times are good, and ignore it when the real bottom line is squeezed.
While this is a good idea, provided that it is paid for with base-broadening so that it does not add to the deficit, it is important to look beyond corporations when thinking about the taxation of businesses.
Pacific Century's proposed deal was thrown into doubt last week by its own tumbling stock price and reports that Singapore Telecommunications and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation were thinking about reviving their offer for Cable and Wireless HKT.
Many government and corporate research labs like Microsoft Research, International Business Machines and AT&T Labs, either already have a quantum computing group, or, like NASA's Ames Research Center and the Hewlett-Packard Corporation, are thinking of starting one.
However, while the corporation is thinking about making the iPlayer sign-in only, there are no plans to link it to the licence fee or an address, which would make it relatively simple to work out who is watching without paying.
"I got a call that HOC Investments, Carey's corporation, was thinking of selling some of the lots, and when I saw the list I almost swallowed my tongue," says Knight.
Corporations were giddy thinking about the tax giveaways and incentive packages (think the $7 million Trump/Pence tax giveaways to Carrier to keep less than one-half of its jobs in that state) surely coming their way.
Now they're bearish on the notion that low-quality corporations can borrow, thinking that a low-quality corporate borrower is risky.
