Anyway, none of this is secret knowledge. This stuff has been studied to pieces. But with so much excess money sloshing around because the wealthy and the large corporations barely pay taxes... Inequality threatens even the best-case scenario of market forces acting as controls.
It is terrible, but it's stemming mostly the for-profits. I'm not objecting to anything because of my own elitist concerns or whatever. Regular higher-ed isn't threatened by this.