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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

Pension funding was above market using aggressive actuarial assumptions. In 1995 there were ~1,350 public hospitals representing ~27% of the industry. Privatizing public infrastructure was a concept popularized in the early 1980’s by Margaret Thatcher’s administration in the UK. municipal bond market. Capital Solutions.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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IPO Task Force Leader: JOBS Act a Wake-up Call for Startups

ReadWriteStart

"A lot of the noise in the market right now is about bringing back irresponsible IPOs. Treasury Department assembled 17 leaders of the startup business investment community, under the auspices of its Access to Capital Conference. That is a short-lived strategy, and a wrong-headed strategy." In March 2011, the U.S.

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