Author: Scott Shepard

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Scott Shepard: Coca-Cola Has Done Opponents of DEI and ESG a Huge Favor

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"The Coca-Cola corporation has adopted a plan to revert back to racial discrimination against non-whites after discriminating in favor of non-whites for at least the last half decade," National Center General Counsel Scott Shepard reveals in a commentary published at RealClearMarkets. Of ...
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Scott Shepard: Jack & Harley Discriminate Against White Male Key Demographic Under Big 3 Pressure

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In a commentary published at RealClearMarkets, National Center General Counsel Scott Shepard pulls back the curtain on the ESG agenda of what he calls "the Great Fiduciary Breach Machines," and "most preposterously the perversion of it popping up at Harley-Davidson ...
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FEP Hits Front Pages, Stands Out in Fight Against SEC Power Grab

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Our ears have been burning in recent weeks as front-page spreads raise the chatter about the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) and show just how effectively it has led the fight against the ESG juggernaut ...
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Scott Shepard: Giant Investment Houses Are Still Infinitely Partisan

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In a commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard makes an assertion that is likely startling to those who aren't fully paying attention: [T]he Big Three investment houses – BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard – are so ...
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Scott Shepard: Some Wandering Wonderings About Disney’s Odd Shareholder Vote

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"[W]hen shareholders vote, the votes go to a company called Broadridge that somehow controls nearly all the voting pipes," writes Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard in a commentary published by RealClearMarkets. So one would hope that Broadridge is a nonpartisan entity ...
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Scott Shepard: Hate Woke Corporatism? Vote Your Shares Against It In Minutes

Scott Shepard: Hate Woke Corporatism? Vote Your Shares Against It In Minutes

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"There’s another tool to fight woke – one that shareholders can use, whether they own a few shares or millions," write Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard at The Daily Caller. For instance, in the case of the upcoming Disney ...
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Scott Shepard: Is BlackRock’s Retrenchment From ESG Real?

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Don't celebrate BlackRock's move toward apparent political neutrality quite yet. Despite reports that the investment behemoth is dissolving its ESG-labeled funds and laying off 600 employees in its ESG and sustainability departments, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard notes in ...
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Scott Shepard: Can Corporations Really Trust the Conference Board?

Scott Shepard: Can Corporations Really Trust the Conference Board?

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In a commentary published by RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard targets the supposedly "independent, nonpartisan" Conference Board, which claims its advice can be trusted while making no efforts to dialogue with more than one side of the policy ...
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Scott Shepard: Partisan Bias Shot Through Operations at Vanguard, State Street

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While BlackRock garners most of the attention for misusing other people's money to push woke ends, investment houses Vanguard and State Street -- the other members of the Big 3 -- are in many ways worse. Both of these shops ...
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Scott Shepard: October 2023: The Month the Net-Zero Dream Died

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For years we've been warning CEOs about the absurdity of their net-zero emissions ambitions, and recent developments indicate that we've been right all along. "The great public-private push to force adoption of new and unreliable technologies before they have been ...
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