Author: Scott Shepard

Klaus Schwab WEF Agenda

Formerly In the Soviet Union, the Locus of Evil Resides In Davos

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Good heavens, it’s been an ugly, stupid few weeks for American corporate executives and the companies they lead, hasn’t it? Even uglier and stupider than the usual new depths they’ve reached since the “mostly peaceful” summer of 2020 – which ...
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Diversity DEI discrimination

Corporations Undermine Their Anti-Discrimination With Support of Discrimination

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More than 60 corporations signed on to an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case heard shortly before the midterm elections that will determine whether diversity-excused race discrimination may continue in American higher education. In making their case, these corporations demonstrated the corruption ...
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Deficits and Spending Are a Tax, But They Do NOT Cause Inflation

Deficits and Spending Are a Tax, But They Do NOT Cause Inflation

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There’s been a lot of sloppy thinking about inflation in the run-up to this week’s elections. Campaigning lends itself to broad, rather than nuanced, pronouncements. Successful governance requires the reverse. And so as the new Congress wends its way to ...
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Twilight of the Twitter Toll-Booth Trolls, and Their FB Friends

Twilight of the Twitter Toll-Booth Trolls, and Their FB Friends

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It looks, ladies and gentlemen, as though a great many millennials who were not trained to have any faculty for objectivity or reflectiveness are going to discover the market value of boundless self-regard and of the absolute conviction – without ...
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BlackRock

BlackRock Conflates and Confuses In ‘Setting Record Straight’ On Energy Boycotts

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BlackRock looks to be in some trouble. It’s assets under management have fallen from $10-11 trillion to $8 trillion, with profits falling 16 percent in the third quarter. Much of this is the result of falling markets, but for BlackRock, that's no excuse because ...
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Disney

In Ian’s Wake Even Disney Gets Corporate Activism Right, For Once

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Sensible, neutral corporate activism efforts are possible. As Florida and the rest of the southeast assess the damage from Ian, even Disney appears to be getting it right. Long before basements had finished drying or residents finished digging out, a ...
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Bloomberg, Dimon and Fink Draw Capitalism As Rule By the Noble

Bloomberg, Dimon and Fink Draw Capitalism As Rule By the Noble

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Well, there they go again. Woke executives have noticed that vast swathes of Americans aren’t much interested in their proposed future – one full of renewed discrimination, carbon-constrained lives and bug-based protein, amongst their other dystopian (for the masses, anyway; ...
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Conservative Activists Offer Exxon a Stellar, Sensible Board Nominee

Conservative Activists Offer Exxon a Stellar, Sensible Board Nominee

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Europe’s headed for a long, cold winter – the fault for which lies squarely at the feet of climate-catastrophist politicians and business executives. Neither of those groups appear to have learned the necessary lessons. National electorates are providing some salutary ...
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Ill-Designed 'Inflation' Indices Guarantee Fed Policy Mistakes

Ill-Designed ‘Inflation’ Indices Guarantee Fed Policy Mistakes

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This is part 2 of a series. The first part is here. The first installment of this series revealed (though of course it is not a novel recognition, either in general or on these pages) that there can be general price ...
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climate pain at the pump gas prices

Do Not Mistake Rising Prices For Inflation

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Are we in the middle of an inflationary cycle? Does stagflation haunt our future? What should be done if we are and it does, or we aren’t and it doesn’t? None of those questions can be answered, or even thought ...
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