Companies have made more than £2billion by trading debt in schools and hospitals built using Private Finance Initiative funding, a new report shows.

Should state schools be able to make a profit? We asked this of you on our Coffee House poll this week. 71 per cent of you said yes, and with good reason. Profit-seeking companies expand when demand is strong: that’s what you want good schools to do. But successful schools not seeking profit have no incentive to expand: it’s an easier life just to let the waiting list grow and jack up ...

The government will have to impose some kind of cap on carbon trading. Erm, yes, they will indeed. That's why the technique is called cap and trade. Quite how this has previously escaped Our George is beyond me.

In all the excitement, I forgot to flag up to Coffee Housers a fact which I dropped in the leader column of today’s magazine. Michael Gove’s new Swedish schools will, it seems, be allowed to make a profit. I said in the editorial that: “Crucially, it now looks likely that the new schools will be able to run for profit — as Anders Hultin, the architect of the Swedish system,...

Back in the Spring, the TUC’s Budget submission called for a windfall tax on energy companies. According to Ofgem, the energy regulator, the electricity industry will benefit from a windfall profit of around £9 billion from the free allocation of their emission permits from 2008 to 2012. A tidy...

This Is A Simple Description Of The Concept Of Cap And Trade "A cap and trade system is a method for managing pollution, with the end goal of reducing the overall pollution in a nation, region, or industry. Many proponents of pollution control support the concept of cap and trade systems, arguing that they are extremely effective, and that they make sense economically as well. Such a system is onl...

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Factories covered by the EU's emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) saw their emissions drop by 3.06% last year, according to the European Commission, which sees the data as evidence that the system is working despite the ongoing economic recession.

From guess who? But profit is not waht itn used to be. Under IFRS profit is the change in the net worth of your balance sheet on a mark to market basis: it is not the result of your trading in the quarter. So if you made incredibly harsh provisions (and most banks did) and then some

The value of open markets does not need rethinking. Via Timmy and this Mandelson article in The Times So what about free trade? Running through the preparatory discussions for the London Summit in April is the explicit assumption that ensuring the global trading system remains open through the downturn is an imperative and a priority. Free trade