Author: Scott Shepard

Scott Shepard: Investment-House Collusion Suffocates Market Signals

Scott Shepard: Investment-House Collusion Suffocates Market Signals

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In the below commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard wants to know: What shall we call a combination by three giant investment houses to use other people’s assets to force behaviors that reduce the productivity of ...
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Scott Shepard: Companies Should Prioritize Profits of Everyday Investors Over the Whims of Bill Gates & His Buddies

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In an op-ed published by RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard uses the Gates Foundation's massive purchase of Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) stock to explain why true capitalism -- as opposed to c-suite insurrectionism -- requires that fiduciary duty run ...
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Scott Shepard: Hollywood Writers Have Scripted Their Own Redundancy

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For the first time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was still president of the Screen Actors’ Guild, Hollywood’s writers and actors have gone on strike at the same time. This strike is technically larger than that one, since it involves ...
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Bob Iger

Scott Shepard: Bob Iger’s Dark Disney Magic: A Wrecking Ball for Wokeness

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Benjamin Franklin published a tract in London and Philadelphia in 1773 explaining the Rules by Which a Great Empire May be Reduced to a Small One. As good satire, it offered both humor and warning, but apparently the British no more ...
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Chase

Scott Shepard: Oops JPMorgan Chase Did It Again…Again

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JPMorgan Chase is back to debanking. Once again, it’s not providing any explanations. And once again it’s targeting people who dare to question the Left Government/Woke Business conspiracy against liberty. At about the same time, it appears, Chase debanked, without warning, Drs ...
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Scott Shepard: The Profoundly Partisan Ways of Proxy Advisory Firms

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A lot of the responsibility for pushing corporations hard to the left in recent years lies with an until-recently little-known pair of proxy-advisory companies, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis. The profound partisan bias (as well as the profound ...
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Larry Fink

Scott Shepard: Larry Fink Abandons Failed “ESG” Phrasing for ESG Phrasing

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Larry Fink is “ashamed.” Quite right, you may respond. But this being Larry Fink, he’s not ashamed of what he should be ashamed of. He’s not ashamed of misusing other people’s assets to push his own personal policy preferences. He’s not ashamed ...
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Scott Shepard & Stefan Padfield: The Pro-Fiduciary-Duty Movement is Winning

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Advocates for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policies label opponents as “anti-ESG.” But what we really are is pro-fiduciary-duty. On June 1, 2023, Heidi Welsh, Executive Director at the Sustainable Investments Institute, posted “Anti-ESG Shareholder Proposals in 2023” on the ...
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Scott Shepard: Shifting Standards of Evidence Will Doom Woke CEOs

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ESG, stakeholder capitalism, sustainability, equity – whatever the label, in each case, the fact on the ground is a corporation taking a left-wing political or social position and claiming that the move will be good for the corporation’s bottom line ...
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Scott Shepard: The Human Rights Campaign Should Call 911 For Itself

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Oh, dear. It appears that the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has declared a national emergency. You remember HRC, no? That’s the group that up to about a decade ago pushed for gay people to have the same civil marriage rights ...
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