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Financial Advisors – Pez Dispensers but for Excrement

Posted in Deliberately False Financial Information, Investment Advice, Lauded Sources, tagged on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Be careful about opening the mouth of a financial advisor, stock broker and so on. Unlike a Pez, that is not candy that is about to come out of their mouths. When I look back, it is in utter amazement at the number of false statements I have been subjected to by financial advisors and [...]

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The Negative Relationship Between Quality vs. Funding in Economics and Finance Reporting

Posted in Deliberately False Financial Information, Media Corruption, tagged , on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Conventional and wealthy media outlets are a good place to find out what Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley would like you to believe. In these magazines you can learn how the bailout is necessary to save “Main Street” and how executives and Wall Street stars deserve their exorbitant compensation. However, not all sources are corrupt [...]

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Two Great Books by Dollars and Sense

Posted in Lauded Sources, tagged on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A Real Education from Dollars and Sense Its hard to give a higher recommendation than the one we give to books by Dollars and Sense. Dollars and Sense is progressive website and publisher on progressive economics and finance. We imaged a university that taught from D&S’s textbooks rather than from the corporate controlled textbooks that [...]

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Chase New to California But Not to Corruption

Posted in Banking, tagged , on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is an excerpt from the book. Real World Banking and Finance, by Dollars and Sense. It describes how Chase has been involved in banking fraud for some time. None of this affected Chase’s ability to buy other banks after the crisis. Now this terrible bank “serves” California. http://www.dollarsandsense.org/bookstore/infobanking.html Chase his brief roster offers just [...]

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Dollars and Sense Magazine – Is there Anyone Better?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

What Kind of Financial and Economics Reporting Do We Deserve? The differences between conventional media and the publication Dollars and Sense on the topic of economics and the present economic crisis is stark. From the conventional media the topic of the biases and corruption of our policy shapers such as Bernake, Geithner and Summers is [...]

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The Epidemic of False Information in Economics and Finance

Posted in Deliberately False Financial Information, Economic Bubbles, Economics, Investment Advice, Media Corruption, Yield Disparity, tagged , , , , , , on January 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Wouldn’t it be nice if deliberately misleading and biased economics and financial information released by concentrated power came with this warning label? We think now is an appropriate time point out the massive amount of false information that surrounds all of us. Here are a few of the main sources: Academics: Focuses on teaching overly [...]

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Yield Disparity

Posted in Reference Articles, Yield Disparity, tagged on January 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »

The understanding of investing returns in the US is that anyone can attain the same returns as someone else. This fiction is what drives moderate income people to invest in the stock market. Research has shown that this is not accurate. Why The Yield Disparity is So Important Yield disparity is real and significant, but barely discussed. [...]

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Milton Friedman – Economist/Intellectual Prostitute

Posted in Economic History, Economics, Misleading Financial Institutions, Monopoly, tagged , , , , , , , , , 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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