And it's the same Obama who, in the same 2008 interview about media consolidation, said, "There is a clear need in this country for the reinvigoration of antitrust enforcement.... to step up review of merger activity and take effective action to stop or restructure those mergers that are likely to harm consumer welfare".
The meeting came a week after disenchanted investors asked Mr. Putin to stop the restructuring plan, which they say would destroy the value of their holdings.
This means across the sector projects are being stopped, organisations restructured and staff are leaving.
ONLY then, experts agree, would the rebels bend on demands that most agree would be nearly impossible to realize: ending unemployment, stopping privatizations and restructuring Colombia's increasingly open economy.
"With the above in mind, my wish for the budget statement is for the chancellor and politicians to stop preventing the restructuring of hospital services in the NHS.
It has become an emblem both of the country's competitiveness problem and of the new Socialist government's relative powerlessness, despite its promises, to stop private-sector restructuring.
A group of foreign investors in Russia's electricity monopoly, Unified Energy Systems, has asked President Vladimir V. Putin to stop a corporate restructuring the investors say is moving too fast and would destroy the value of their holdings.
Nearly 75percentt of the state utility commissioners interviewed "expect the California situation will either stop or decelerate restructuring in their states," according to the survey, by RKS Research and Consulting, a market research firm specializing in the energy industry.
Moreover, restructuring would stop speculation against the euro, whose intrinsic solidity need not be affected by one member country's bankruptcy, as long as the European Central Bank does not break its own rules regarding loans backed by junk bonds.
