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Public-Private Partnerships Fad Fails
After the failure and abuses of privatization became apparent, public-private partnerships have since been promoted to mobilize private finance for the public purpose. PPPs have socialized costs and losses while ensuring private financial gains.
Read more...The Federal Government Has Poured Millions into Failing Charter Schools in Louisiana
Another fiasco: charter schools in Louisiana.
Read more...“It’s Not Just Barclays – Tackling Climate Change Means Building a New Bank System”
A discussion of using bank lending as a way to tackle climate change.
Read more...Why Charter School Proponents Have Lost Many of the Democrats Who Once Supported Them
Why some liberals are coling on charter schools.
Read more...Has Privatization Benefitted the Public?
To ensure public acceptability, some benefits accrue to many in the early stages of privatization in order to minimize public resistance. However, in the longer term, privatization tends to enrich a few but typically fails to deliver on its ostensible aims.
Read more...Outsourcing Giant Interserve with 65,000 Employees Collapses
Another UK outsourcing implosion in just over a year….what gives?
Read more...A Study in Professional Power: Why Do the Big 4 Accountants Survive?
How the Big 4 accountants cemented their position and why that matters.
Read more...Gilets Jaunes Under Attack
The gilets jaunes have arisen out of the profound inequality that is fracturing societies across Europe. It is against that inequality that leaders must take a strong stance.
Read more...Post Office Privatization Thrust Awaits (Stalled) Publication of Trump Task Force Report
The Post Office, its Universal Service Obligation, privatization efforts, how (and possibly why) those efforts are stalled.
Read more...Revisiting Privatization’s Claims
Advocates exaggerate claims that privatization would reduce governments’ fiscal problems while ensuring more efficient, productive, and competitive economies by promoting private entrepreneurship, innovation, and investments.
Read more...Why I Am Not Wildly Enthusiastic about Sanders’ Plan to Tax Amazon
Defects in Sanders’ “plan to have a plan” to tax Amazon, and how to cure them.
Read more...Medicare Part D: Delight, or Debacle?
My first foray into real Medicare.
Read more...Baltimore Set To Be First Major US City to Ban Water Privatization
The city of Baltimore is poised to denounce the privatization fairy and reject privatization of its water and sewage system.
Read more...Argentina 20 Years On: Has the IMF Really Changed Its Ways?
The IMF is back in Argentina. The fund pretends that it’s moved away from borrower-punitive programs, but the evidence says otherwise.
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