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...Defects in Sanders’ “plan to have a plan” to tax Amazon, and how to cure them.
Read more...My first foray into real Medicare.
Read more...The city of Baltimore is poised to denounce the privatization fairy and reject privatization of its water and sewage system.
Read more...The IMF is back in Argentina. The fund pretends that it’s moved away from borrower-punitive programs, but the evidence says otherwise.
Read more...An impending IT debacle at the Veteran’s Administration, and a bipartisan effort to privatize it.
Read more...Puerto Rico’s situation is causing Naomi Klein to rethink “shock doctrine.”
Read more...@USofCare, accounting control fraud, financial predation, conflict of interest, and abuse of workers.
Read more...A perverse bit of good news: PE firms don’t like Trump’s infrastructure scheme.
Read more...Puerto Rico announces plans to privatise its public utility, even though many residents still lack power 4 months after Hurricane Maria.
Read more...Nurses are leaving the NHS, and that’s no accident.
Read more...More on Carillion’s bad deeds.
Read more...A first look at the implications of the failure of Carallion, a top UK infrastructure firm and provider of outsourced services to governments
Read more...The tiered Internet, a head count for the CRA, and the constituencies that the abolition of net neutrality will harm (including knitters)
Read more...The story of the missing telephone poles, the Puerto Rican exodus, and the Aurelius case, where nobody knows anything.
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