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Peter R. Orszag, previously director of the Office of Management and Budget, writes an article for Bloomberg View in which he states that governments across the world have an estimated $75 trillion worth of commercial assets -- roughly 50 percent more than the $54 trillion in global public debt -- and these assets are typically quite poorly managed. Further, he states "the returns from better management would be enormous. A 2 percentage-point increase in the return on public commercial assets w...
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