The state disclosure requirements are well intentioned, but they allow officeholders and candidates to report their financial interests vaguely enough to hide conflicts.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department asked Congress on Tuesday for a law that would restore powers prosecutors have used against public and private sector officials who intentionally hide conflicts of interest for personal gain.
One of the chief critics is the influential psychiatrist Dr. Robert Spitzer, who published an open letter protesting the confidentiality mandate and saying closed discussions could hide conflicts of interest.
Trying to hide conflicts of interest hurts that brand, particularly when they hide, hypocritically, behind an ethics statement that prohibits the behavior they're hiding.
The SEC in September expressed concern that funds-of-hedge-funds vendors fail to explain the impact of multiple layers of expenses or properly gauge suitability; expose investors to unacceptable risk; wrongly value assets; and hide conflicts of interest.
If we are trying to do more than recover the vertical signal and don't want to hide conflicting data, etc. then more conflicting data which is at a weaker strength is actually worse.
What if there's a deeper, hidden conflict?
Long-term change involves understanding the motivations, hidden conflicts and impulses that drive us.
He had hidden conflicts about sex, or he had ambivalent feelings about his partner.
Such blockages Freud dubbed resistance, which had to be broken down in order to reveal hidden conflicts.
