Stock exchanges, it has become clear, are not public utilities at all: they are money-making enterprises.
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State banks might then be told once again to bankroll wages at loss-making enterprises.
Heads of profit-making enterprises reason that it looks self-serving just to come right out and say they want the government to reduce taxes and eliminate costly regulations.
Sure, they are privately owned, profit-making enterprises.
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In fact, Mr Singh seems prepared to sell only those loss-making state enterprises the market doesn't really want to buy.
Last year Mr Manos was kicked out of New Democracy, the centre-right opposition party, for refusing to oppose reforms at Olympic Airways, Greece's struggling state airline, and other loss-making state enterprises.
But while China Investment Corporation (CIC), China Development Bank and state-owned energy companies will continue to be big players, other enterprises will be making outward moves using diversified financing.
In fact, defense greatly out-performed most other sectors of the economy during the early years of the new millennium, making the executives who had fashioned enterprises like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman look prescient.
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While toy company Rich Legend Enterprises Ltd. has been making Lunar New Year toys for 10 years, including 10, 000 dragon toys last year, marketing director Gary Wong says it didn't bother with similar production this year.
But as the cloud resolves issues of data storage and management, and mobile and social technologies allow for easy and immediate information sharing, Big Data now can be crunched and shared throughout an organization, leading to better decision-making and outcomes for all sorts of enterprises.
Not only are those enterprises providing jobs but they are also making increasingly larger investments in the kinds of technologies that can curb energy usage and lead to fewer emissions.
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Printing money to buy debt from government-sponsored enterprises ( Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), which are now outright state-owned enterprises, is a far cry from making productive loans through a private banking system.
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Because of failures of major financial institutions due to excessive risk taking, lenders became much more cautious, making it difficult for entrepreneurs to invest in new enterprises that would create jobs to replace those that were lost.
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To be sure, private lenders are now making very few mortgages, with most initiated by Government-Sponsored Enterprises (Chart 7).
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Good communication is critical to making a big change take hold in any organization, especially in complex enterprises.
He wants to see not-for-profit charities and social enterprises encouraged to run care homes instead of private operators intent on making money.
Small and mid-size enterprises in India are adept at playing in the shadow economy and making even big ticket investments in cash.
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And we also targeted that space by making our products extremely easy to deploy, and offer a price point that allows the mid-tier enterprises to afford Wi-Fi coverage everywhere in their establishment.
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It'll mean making deep changes to old industries like Wuhan Iron and Steel, reforming China's giant state-owned enterprises.
Scout Enterprises Ltd, which provided support work facilitators to people with disabilities, went into administration last year, making about 100 of its employees redundant.
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