Stanford seems to be trying to monopolize the acquisition of people who are both evil and consistently wrong. They recently re-hired Condoleeza Rice as a professor and set her up as a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute. Largely regarded as “a hand puppet” with very few original ideas, and willing to repeat almost any [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Stanford’
Stanford has a Taste for Facsism – and Condi
Posted in Intellectual Fraud, Think Tanks, tagged Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Hoover Institute, Milton Friedman, Stanford on May 4, 2009 | 1 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 [...]
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 [...]
Writing Bias – Financial Sensationalism and Quid Pro Quo
Posted in Investment Advice, Media Corruption, tagged Stanford on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Abstract The presumption of US media outlets is tha there is an attempt to present unbiased information to readers. However, there are a number of biases inherent in all financial publications. These biased are discussed in this article. The bias related to taking money from financia interests in the form of advertising in return for [...]
Do Ads Influence Investment Publications?
Posted in Investment Advice, Media Corruption, Stock Market, tagged Stanford on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Abstract Media influence is a charged subject, and is extremely rarely discussed. One reason is that the media is loath to criticize itself and reforming the media would reduce its income from advertising. We can discuss it here because we are not paid for by advertising. One of the few published research articles on this [...]
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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