In a Financial Times article, NYU Stern School of Business professor Larry Zicklin, says the days when getting an MBA costs well north of $100,000 are coming to an end.
Zicklin argues that … b-schools face an existential threat … and that they aren’t aware of the tsunami that’s about to hit them.
The era of charging $100,000 for an education is over.
Here’s why …
From the you can’t make this stuff up files …
During the 2009-10 battle over what’s now dubbed Obamacare, Republicans insisted that Capitol Hill hands must have the same health care as the rest of the American people.
Now, according to left-leaning Politico, “Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting 535 lawmakers and their aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of ObamaCare.”
“The lawmakers — especially those with long careers in public service and smaller bank accounts — are concerned about the hit to their own wallets.”
Obviously, “by removing themselves from a key ObamaCare mandate, lawmakers – who passed the law — and aides would be held to a different standard than the people on whom they’re imposing the law.”
Politico keenly observes: “If Capitol Hill leaders move forward with the plan, they risk being dubbed hypocrites by their political rivals and the American public.”
You think?
Good for us, bad for them.
Hmmm.
There’s more. Here’s the real head-scratcher …
The Homa Files 