This has always been a place which understood how markets and exchanges work and how they can be built. To tap that knowledge requires deep roots, and I think that is the biggest challenge for global companies. We do work on the basis of a network of different centres - that is the reality of the modern world. It would be false and counterproductive to start creating a network of buildings which pretended to be headquarters in the old sense. I suspect the fear that people like us might walk away reflects the dark side of globalisation.
People love the excitement of the new connected economy.
The ability to work and trade on line. The new possibilities that it opens up . The fact that it breaks down barriers. But the excitement is balanced by a cloud of concern. That concern was expressed in one way at Seattle and it has been expressed in many other more constructive ways in the press and political debate.