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The legal problem arises if it fails to inform its customers about its self-interested conflicts that steer its recommendations.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The fault, he said, lay with Lululemon’s board, which he said lacked experience in creative businesses, was uninterested in product development and quality, and focused on “short-term, self-interested priorities.”

From MarketWatch • Jan. 22, 2026

Lawmakers insisted upon this independence to ensure that it could operate “unfettered by political dictates, self-interested industry pressure or blind consumer zeal.”

From Slate • Jul. 24, 2025

But they also have self-interested reasons to get involved.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024

The problem with someone who is transparently self-interested is that the extent of his interests is never clear.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis