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Summary: The term financialisation helps describe some of the activities of the EPO in recent years; see Wikipedia on financialisation below

"The EPO is wasting money on stock market gambling," we noted the other day. One associate of ours dubbed this "financialisation", explaining that "they start to bring in more money through gambling than through the normal work activities. At that point the normal work activities become a charade at best, so they can pretend that they are active in a particular field of endeavor. More often the normal work activities just get in the way of the gambling so in response any staff still involved in normal work activities get fired in one way or another." ⬆

Self-regulate? Like Kratochvìl, Ernst and Kongstad protecting the abusers?