The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.
Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.
[Donald] Trump continues to dismiss those concerns though, even as some Republicans, like Lindsay Graham, are making the case that Trump's business ties deserve the scrutiny.
I think, with Trump, the major point is this guy has business enterprises all over the world. And you're looking just at immense, immense conflict of interest.
When we're dealing with money in relationships, when we're dealing with money in our personal lives, when we're dealing with money in our families, the flow of money in a family represents the value system under which that family operates.
Joining finances can be tricky. Money has long topped the list of topics couples fight about.
Marriage and sex and money the only living devils.
I personally don't invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn't typically either.
Sometimes I have so many financial conflicts of interest that I can't even keep them straight.
In the perfect world, no one would need pre-nups. But all too often, a misty-eyed romancer at the altar transforms into a vengeful, avaricious fiscal predator when the marriage goes south.