Sentences with phrase «of public monopolies»

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And in the political sphere, finance has become the great defender of deregulating monopolies and «freeing» land rent and asset - price gains from taxation, translating its economic power and campaign contributions into the political power to capture control of public financial regulation.

All this was viewed (by classical economists) as something that government regulators should get rid of, either by not permitting it in price, or by holding the monopolies in the public domain, or by the land itself being either nationalized or taxed.

But by far the bulk of debt was used to buy rival companies, as occurred when MCI bought Sprint, and when European companies bought hitherto public monopolies.

Soros: Global dominance of Google, Facebook will be broken Regulation and taxation will be their undoingThe Internet monopolies are turning into a public menace, writes George Soros.

That certainly didn't match with my recollection — the second half of my microeconomics 101 course was all about market failures due to monopoly, incomplete information, public goods, or environmental pollution.

As my colleague Mr. Harrison has explained, Russia's land, fuel and minerals and public monopolies are capable of generating a sufficient volume of economic rent to fund the government budget.

The labor theory of value aimed at isolating the economic rent as a margin that either was to be taxed away (for land and natural resources that were privatized) or kept in the public domain (for infrastructure and other natural monopolies).

Americans for Financial Reform and Public Citizen are defending limits on forced arbitration from congressional attack with a delivery all 100 U.S. Senate offices: a mock «Get - Out - of - Jail - Free» card for the banks inspired by the board game Monopoly.

Do American diplomats want to help U.S. investors and companies acquire ownership of Russia's mineral wealth and public monopolies, so that their profits will accrue to the U.S. and European economies?

It adopted this policy to head off a rising chorus of public attacks on the Postal Service monopoly.

The Progressive Era developed the view that public utilities and other natural monopolies rightly belonged in the public sector, where governments would provide their basic services at a subsidized price or even freely as in the case of roads.

Bankers for their part were eager to make loans to finance buyouts of public gambling, telephones, ports and transport or similar monopoly opportunities.

He earned national recognition for championing charters, arguing that competition in the public school system would help «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» as he told The New York Daily News in 2014.

The bottom line is that it is not fractional reserve banking per se that is the cause of inflationary increases to the money supply due to the money multiplier process but rather the ability of central banks to override market signals, thanks to their monopoly status, and add reserves to the banking system at their discretion and independently of the public's preferences.

Contrary to the popular portrayal of torture as «medieval,» it was the early - modern monarchies that inaugurated «the golden age of judicial torture,» along with offering spectacular public executions that reflected the fragility of the new state's monopoly on violence.

But there is also the reality of monopoly, exercised by large corporate interests which keep the public from knowing what is going on in their own society.

«When both the logic of the market and the logic of the State come to an agreement that each will continue to exercise a monopoly over its respective area of influence, in the long term much is lost: solidarity in relations between citizens, participation and adherence, actions of gratuitousness, all of which stand in contrast with giving in order to acquire (the logic of exchange) and giving through duty (the logic of public obligation, imposed by State law).

The program called for mixed public - private ownership of key industries to prevent monopolies and economic concentration, «planning and direction» of the economy, self - management of economic relations through occupational councils, promotion of small - to medium - sized firms, and protection of individual freedom and private property.

The Strasbourg Court of Human Rights has judged (November 23, 1993, in Informationsverein Lentia a.o. vs. Austria) that the Austrian public broadcasting monopoly is incompatible with the freedom of expression.

There is some evidence that the deregulated, competitive broadcast systems of West European countries reflect less diversity in contents than the formerly regulated, public monopolies.

As I've mentioned before, (check out this heated pre-election post about Dobson's criticism of Obama), no person, denomination, or political party has a monopoly on how best to apply the Bible to public life.

1) multiple interpretations of the Bible exist 2) there are many ways to apply the teachings of the Bible to public life 3) no one denomination or spokesperson has a monopoly on how to accurately interpret the Bible and apply it to public life 4) because we live in a pluralistic society, we must learn to raise the level of public discourse so that we not only appeal to our specific religious tradition, but to a common sense of morality and justice

The evangelical - moralist sector has gained access to the White House, the Supreme Court, the Congress; it has a near - monopoly on mass media religion news, popular religion, the production of religious celebrities; it makes clear its positions on what it calls social issues, and is engaged in calling for constitutional amendments and new laws and in protests in the public squares.

So far, his sermons of denunciation were only common form, whereas in his In Praise of Folly (1511) Erasmus had given public vent to a violent sarcasm, which some people had found offensive, denouncing the warlike Pope Julius II and referring in his correspondence to «the monopoly of the Roman High Priest».

Flores said the mass action in front of DA will be followed by a public forum on the impacts of monopoly capitalists to the agriculture sector titled «Going Against the Grain: Resisting the Neoliberal Attacks on Agriculture and the Way Forward to a Food - Secure Future.»

They would build an ecological socialism based on economic democracy — cooperatives, public enterprises, public planning, and markets free of monopoly profiteering and predatory finance — in order to provide a decent standard of living for all on an ecologically sustainable basis.

The governor, who has said in recent months that he wants to break the public education monopoly, says New Yorkers have concerns about the quality of the schools and whether they are adequately preparing students.

Nevertheless, Cuomo has been criticized by liberals advocates for not being more forcefully in favor of a Democratic takeover of the chamber this year, which came to a head this week when the governor knocked public schools as a «monopoly» he wants to break by strengthening charter schools.

The Cuomo - WFP contretemps were renewed this week after Cuomo called public schools a «monopoly» and escalated a war of words with the statewide teachers union NYSUT.

«Everyone saw the value of a mixed economy that put the brakes on private monopolies and guaranteed a public realm.

He will place the «burden of proof» on the state to justify why it should ever hold a monopoly on public services, in a white paper on «open public services» due out shortly.

After Governor Cuomo's recent description of schools as the «last public monopoly,» Hawkins said that this is just the latest episode in Cuomo's ongoing attacks on public education and teachers.

(Hudson, NY) Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said that Cuomo's recent description of schools as the «last public monopoly» is just the latest episode in his ongoing attacks on public education and teachers.

And yesterday, David Cameron became the true heir to Blair when he declared that the public sector had no right to a monopoly on the provision of public services» - «Cameron bets all on radical change», for the Scotsman

The state's teachers union is already gearing up for a major fight this budget season on education issues after Cuomo declared he wanted to end the «public monopoly» on education through a strengthening of charter schools.

But unlike the Labour governments of the past, I believe public sector monopolies almost never spend that money best.

Cuomo made it clear long before he unveiled his 2015 - 16 budget — and even before the November 2014 elections — that he had the teachers unions in his crosshairs, and intended to break the so - called «monopoly» he believed is to blame for most of the public education system's woes.

Governor Cuomo angered teachers when he said last fall that he intends to break the public school monopoly, and that he found it «incredible» that less than 5 percent of teachers were deemed deficient in the latest teacher performance scores.

He earned national recognition for championing charters, arguing that competition in the public school system would help «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» as he told The New York Daily News in 2014.

St. Lawrence and his cronies allegedly made their own Muni - Monopoly money to cover misuse of public funds.

The group established that, Kofi Jumah and Amoako Tufuor were the pioneers who raised alarm against the choice of Akufo - Addo by means of peddling horrible insults against Akufo - Addo to the public «We wish to tell Akufo - Addo and his rented clowns that, if they have monopoly over reckless conducts and plotting of evil, we have fair reasoning and common sense.

Many teachers are particularly outraged at Cuomo's support of charter schools instead of existing district schools — he even recently said he wants to break up the monopoly that is public education.

Cuomo angered teachers when he said last fall that he intends to break the public school monopoly, and that he found it incredible that less than 5 percent of teachers were deemed efficient in the latest teacher performance scores.

But such was the tricky position the progressive Working Families Party found itself in Wednesday, when it issued a statement rejecting Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recent comments that he would work to «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies» — the public education system in New York.

He vowed to push for a new, tougher round of teacher performance evaluations and break the back of the public school «monopoly» if he's re-elected.

SOMERSET — Fresh off the stunning approval of a cut - rate electricity deal between a Canadian government - run power monopoly and New York City by the New York State Public Service Commission, local leaders are calling for the deal to be blocked before local jobs are lost.

«The single best thing that I can do,» Gov. Cuomo said last year, is «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies»: the teachers union.

In remarks to the Daily News editorial board, Gov. Andrew Cuomo discussed imposing stricter standards for teacher evaluation and referred to public schools as «one of the only remaining public monopolies.»

But the city remains politically in the clutches of a Democratic Party monopoly that has long focused on the petty and self - serving at expense of the greater public good.

Asked by Capital for comment Tuesday morning, a spokesman for New York State United Teachers addressed Cuomo's comments about teacher evaluations but initially declined to comment on the governor's likening of public education to a «monopoly.»