Conferring The Goebbels Award We have created the first ever Joseph Goebbels Award for Economic Propaganda, aka “A Goebbie.” Whether is doing industry funded research to undermine public schools, rattling the saber to provide a context for invading Iran, or pushing out moronic treaties on “free markets” no think tank is as consistently biased in [...]
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The Hoover Institute Wins the Joseph Goebbels Award for Economic Propaganda
Posted in Misleading Financial Institutions on January 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Hoover Institute is a Front for Stanford’s Political Views
Posted in Deliberately False Financial Information, Economic Regulation, Misleading Financial Institutions, Think Tanks, tagged Stanford, Hoover Institute, Donald Rumsfeld, SEC on April 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Behind Stanford’s pleasant exterior is a facist political agenda which is evidenced by their funding and hosting of the Hoover Institute. Hoover is both directed Stanford (although they deny it) and is a false front for Stanford and other wealthy patrons who have a very undemocratic streak. In an earlier article we noted that Hoover [...]
Unconstitutional Fed Makes International Banking Cartel Happy
Posted in Banking, Currency, Economic History, Economics, Misleading Financial Institutions, Videos, tagged Alan Grayson, CEPR.net, Goldman Sacks, Henry Paulson, Hoover Institute, Ron Paul, SEC on April 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What would you do if you learned that your government had outsourced its central banking function to a private company? Furthermore that this company had only a loose affiliation to the government, and that the government have very little oversight into this entity both in terms of controlling its behavior and being able to see [...]
Stanford Lowers Itself by Having the Hoover Institute
Posted in Corrupt Economists, Deliberately False Financial Information, Economic Regulation, Misleading Financial Institutions, tagged Milton Friedman, Stanford, Hoover Institute, Donald Rumsfeld, Enron, SEC, Slavery on February 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Hoover Institute has little to do with serious scholarship, and more to do with neo-con and ultraconservative ideology. Their research is clearly doctrinal and people with independent minds interested in real economics would be good to ignore the Institute’s ‘findings.” Real economists do perform research for them, but when they do, it is to [...]
Its Time to Privatize Our Nuclear Arsenal
Posted in Globalization, Misleading Financial Institutions, Privatization, tagged Citibank, Goldman Sacks, Hoover Institute, Milton Friedman, Obama, SEC on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our nuclear arsenal is the best in the world. We have close to 6000 ICBMs and 200,000 total nuclear devices. Its time to bring the benefits of privatization and the markets to our arsenal so this segment of the economy can benefit the way that our financial markets have benefited from unregulated chaos. Responding to [...]
National Foundation for Credit Counseling is Creditor Front Organization
Posted in Debt Peonage, Investment Advice, Misleading Financial Institutions, Mortgages, Videos on January 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The National Foundation for Credit Counseling is an organization and lobby group for the credit counseling and debt consolidation industry. However, they not only represent credit counseling and debt consolidation firms, they also represent the creditors themselves. They were the subject of an anti-trust lawsuit. “In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the number of [...]
Milton Friedman – Economist/Intellectual Prostitute
Posted in Economic History, Economics, Misleading Financial Institutions, Monopoly, tagged CEPR.net, Dean Baker, DollarsandSense.org, Hoover Institute, LTCM, Michael Hudson, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, Nobel Prize, Stanford on January 10, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Abstract There is no more damaging academic in the 20th century than Milton Friedman. His philosophies caused widespread economic problems and inequality not only in his home country but internationally as well. Milton Friedman is considered a giant of 20th century economics, and is probably the most influential economist of the past 100 years. The [...]
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