The New New Deal
The myth of the virtues of markets is past its sell-by date. Time for a new guiding principle, and the New Deal may be the place to start.
Read more...Category Archives: Privatization
Mr. Market Starts to Question Trump Trade Delusion
A look at the “Trump trade” pearl clutching yesterday.
Read more...More Evidence School Choice Hurts Student Performance
More proof that “school choice” as in vouchers, is about profiteering and ideology rather than better education.
Read more...Chicago Shows How Charter School Profiteering Bleeds Public Schools Without No Performance Improvement and Higher Segregation
Chicago as a case study in charter school rent extraction.
Read more...NY Times Lets a Charter School Propagandist Distort the Facts on Its Op-Ed Page
Quelle surprise! Card carrying neoliberal David Leonhardt of the New York Times twists facts to try to make a case for charter schools.
Read more...5 Times Charter School Founders Used Shady Real Estate Deals to Shamelessly Enrich Themselves
A trio of academics compare charter school tactics to Wall Street’s raiders.
Read more...13 Questions That Expose Charter School Falsehoods
The sales pitch made by charter school boosters does not hold up to scrutiny.
Read more...How the Greediest Charter School Operators Loot Taxpayers Via Real Estate Deals
An interview with professor Preston Green, whose study found that the most aggressive charter school operators are using Enron-like tactics.
Read more...Dismantling Public Education: Turning Ideology into Gold
Following the money behind the campaign against public education.
Read more...Follow the Money: Nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services Traded Health Care Stocks and Owned Tobacco Stocks While in Congress
We have to follow the money, all the money that flows around our new plutocrat-in-chief to be, and his rich and well connected cronies.
Read more...A Battle Over American-Made Products Is Looming and Republicans Are in the Middle of It
Why “Buy American” is going to be a tough sale for Trump.
Read more...I Correct Schumer Fudging What Medicare Privatization Would Mean and He Pretends He Was Being Honest All Along
Chuck Schumer’s nose is getting so long that he needs to get a hacksaw. That does not not bode well for the Democrats standing up to Trump.
Read more...The Story That Russia Does Not Want You to See: The Rosneft Share “Sale” as a Sham Transaction
The widely-reported sale of a 19.5% stake in Rosneft to Glencore and Qatar looks like a sham transaction.
Read more...Capitalism in the Time of Trump?
Neoliberal capitalism has led to underinvestment, lowering productivity and increasing inequality. Will Trump make things better or worse?
Read more...Trump Agenda: Privatization of Medicare and Social Security?
Nancy Altman discusses prospects for privatisation of Medicare and Social Security raised by Trump’s HHS and other nomination announcements.
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