Author: Scott Shepard

After Labor Department’s Wise Move, Time To Hold Public Pension Fund Managers To A Return-Maximization Standard As Well

After Labor Department’s Wise Move, Time To Hold Public Pension Fund Managers To A Return-Maximization Standard As Well

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia recently announced a proposed rule to require private pension fund managers to maximize risk-appropriate returns rather than indulge their personal policy preferences when selecting investments. When so much of corporate America is mouthing ill-considered platitudes while ...
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Stakeholder Primacy: Who’s Playing Whom?

Stakeholder Primacy: Who’s Playing Whom?

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Last summer the Business Roundtable – a body comprised of CEOs of many of the country’s largest corporations – voted to reinterpret its theory of the corporation to give its members a massive increase in latitude and cut in oversight ...
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COVID-19 Model Failures Show Why Climate Science Isn’t ‘Settled’

COVID-19 Model Failures Show Why Climate Science Isn’t ‘Settled’

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The scientific models used to predict the global impact of the COVID-19 crisis have cast into acute doubt the idea of iron-clad, unquestionable scientific modeling itself. Model failure has had potentially catastrophic effects on the world economy. It should have ...
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Under a Fog of Pablum, Google Promises to Keep Censoring Conservative Content

Under a Fog of Pablum, Google Promises to Keep Censoring Conservative Content

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Alphabet's virtual annual shareholder meeting today started off in the partisan manner you would expect of Google's parent company: CEO Sundar Pichai commiserating with the protests against police mistreatment of blacks and minorities, without spending a moment to consider police ...
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Kraft Heinz Finally Shares Some Good News: No Corporate Ties to SPLC

Kraft Heinz Finally Shares Some Good News: No Corporate Ties to SPLC

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We received some good news yesterday from Kraft Heinz. It is not, as had been reported, a corporate supporter of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). But man did we have to push to get that information out of them ...
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Pepsi’s Connivances, and the Flaws of Virtual Shareholder Meetings, On Display Again Today

Pepsi’s Connivances, and the Flaws of Virtual Shareholder Meetings, On Display Again Today

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PepsiCo.’s virtual shareholder meeting this morning further demonstrated both Pepsi’s bias and duplicity, and the problems that are engendered by virtual shareholder meetings under current U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules. We "attended" the shareholder meeting this morning, and ...
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Jerry Bowyer Calls for Christian Investors to Vote their Values

Jerry Bowyer Calls for Christian Investors to Vote their Values

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There are strong calls from some Christian corners to disengage with the wider world, so far as is reasonably possible, in order to create a more vibrant and meaningful Christian community – what Rod Dreher has dubbed the Benedict Option ...
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Johnson & Johnson Evasion Highlights Problems with Regulation and Virtual Shareholder Meetings

Johnson & Johnson Evasion Highlights Problems with Regulation and Virtual Shareholder Meetings

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The Free Enterprise Project (FEP) “attended” Johnson & Johnson’s virtual shareholder meeting today, where our question was ignored despite the meeting ending in less than an hour.  That is a shame, and also a useful illustration. J&J’s furtiveness illustrates two ...
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New York Times Dodges Sham Racism Claims in “Wuhan Virus” Controversy

New York Times Dodges Sham Racism Claims in “Wuhan Virus” Controversy

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Today at the virtual New York Times annual shareholder meeting, we at the National Center for Public Policy Research asked Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger about the paper's reversal of using the term “Wuhan virus,” and about other times in which the ...
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Warning From A Cancel Culture Cassandra

Warning From A Cancel Culture Cassandra

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Modern traditional and social media, in all of their multiplying and increasingly malevolent forms, provide replete evidence of our collective failure in recent decades to raise children properly. The end of scoring and the efflorescence of “everybody’s awesome” trophies that ...
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