Michael C.
Michael C. Jensen, an economist and Harvard Business School professor whose evangelizing for stock options, golden parachutes and leveraged buyouts helped reshape modern capitalism and empower Wall Street’s greed-is-good era, died on April 2 at his home in Sarasota, Fla. He was 84. Even before he embarked on a peculiar late-career intellectual partnership with Werner Erhard, the controversial self-help guru who created est, Professor Jensen’s colleagues considered him among the most freethinking and divisive economists of his generation. His ideas were incendiary and influential; he was a born proselytizer according to Eugene F. Fama, a University of Chicago professor and Nobel laureate in economics who collaborated with Professor Jensen.
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Bias
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- Our commander in chief is not in command
- President Biden’s border policies are a disgrace
- This crisis is despicable
Conflicts of Interest
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- The statement 'Trump has won just a single nominating contest’ is misleading as it implies that Trump’s opponents are not significant when in fact they have been actively campaigning against him.
Contradictions
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- Donald J. Trump has won just a single nominating contest, but his potential running mates already outnumber his presidential rivals on the campaign trail.
- Former president Donald Trump’s campaign aims to announce his running mate by July 15, the first day of the Republican National Convention.
- Stefanik is considered a potential vice-presidential pick for the presumptive GOP nominee and has been outspoken in her support of Israel.
- Trump’s selection process for a running mate is focused on a wide field of candidates.
Deceptions
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- The statement 'Trump has won just a single nominating contest’ is misleading as it implies that Trump’s opponents are not significant when in fact they have been actively campaigning against him.
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