That still doesn't make them special. The failure of any essential service provider or business partner can have a crippling effect on a business. That's just a

That still doesn't make them special. The failure of any essential service provider or business partner can have a crippling effect on a business. That's just a risk you take precautions against as part of normal day to day operations. Treating them as the foundation of the infrastructure of the capitalist system and therefore somehow exempt from regulation, the law and the market is why the global economy is in such a mess today. There are no consequences any more to bad decisions by the global banks. They keep getting bailed out and bailed out and into more and more debt. One day the can will no longer be able to be kicked down the road.