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Pro-market economist not to be trust on Macro


Towards the end of the film it get pretty damning over payments by corporate interests to academics.

I cannot think of another field in academia that is so susceptible to corruption, than economics. Many of the professors are paid by corporations to 'teach' them about the market, but the compensation causes that relationship to become reciprocative. When the professors are asked to provide macro advice to government entities they are being watched by the same corporations that had paid them before for the 'education'. So they are under an obligation to the corporate interests when giving their macro advice to the government or public.

I think a mandatory full foreclosure law could be beneficial for all of us.

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