Promoters of the concept of Any Qualified Provider who indulge in marketisation do so under the false belief that this achieves better health outcomes, which flies in the face of both the theory as well as overwhelming evidence that equity, efficiency and equilibrium of the NHS are adversely affected.
I'm referring to the overwhelming allocation of their equity portfolios toward American companies.
Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
Clearly shareholders are wary of how these banks value their assets, reckon losses will be overwhelming, are expecting a common equity issue that will dilute their stakes, or are expecting a mix of all three.
In doing so, SoftBank runs the very real risk of overwhelming markets for late-stage venture capital, private equity and post-IPO equity deals, which already have a lot of cash chasing relatively few opportunities.
In one study, Robert Bartlett, a Berkeley law professor, found that the overwhelming majority of companies bought by private equity firms still voluntarily complied with the provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley in order to issue debt to finance these acquisitions.
"These are big powerful trademarks that have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on their names and it makes sense to transfer that name into logical equities where the power of the brand is overwhelming in terms of consumer recognition".
The allegations against the governor and his resignation, he said, "are an overwhelming blow to a process that was under way with respect to equity in education".
It does not take Leon Trotsky to work out the overwhelming priority of the various drooling contenders, from the worlds of bookmaking and private equity.
With that, as markets rise in the two Uniteds, their overwhelming weight in the world will, through classic competitive sympathy buying, pull the non-United equity market up, too.
