Category: Blog
Political Realities Confound Liberal Leaders
As the Biden White House crows about better-than-expected numbers for new jobs, Jason Furman – the chief economist during the Obama Administration – worried about the details underlying an “uncomfortably hot jobs report.” In a panel discussion about this precarious ...
Corporate Wokeness Eats Its Own Tail
In his latest commentary for Real Clear Markets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard explains how corporate wokeness eats its own tail. “Neither Starbucks not the NCAA appear to have read the fine print in their contracts with the devil,” Scott writes. “If you sign ...
Biden Hails Jobs Report Despite Bad News for Blacks
Joe Biden suggested the July jobs report highlighted the “significant progress” his administration is making for “working families.” Sure, the claims of overall numbers for jobs was high, but did he read into the report to find out what happened ...
BlackRock’s Larry Fink Is Growing More Unabashedly Dictatorial
Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard writes in his latest commentary for Real Clear Markets: “One might think [Larry] Fink would be more careful, given that he carries a raft of fiduciary duties to investors and shareholders… But no. While he ...
Morningstar’s ESG Metrics Promulgate BDS
Investor-research firm Morningstar "thinks it can get away with expressly treating all non-leftist shareholder proposals as 'anti-ESG,' and advising its clients to oppose such initiatives – thereby revealing that it places the political policy preferences of the company’s elite over ...
Justices Allow “Human Weeds” to Prosper
When it comes to the toll wrought by abortion, Project 21 member Rasheed Walters solemnly observes that “[w]e will never know” what America missed from those who were lost. In a Boston Herald commentary, he puts much of the blame ...
No Improvement, Just Spin from Biden
Even though Joe Biden claimed as a candidate that “there would not be another foot of wall” built if he was elected president, the Biden Administration is now closing the gaps in those walls along the Mexico-Yuma, Arizona border. U.S ...
Pen’s Outta Ink, Phone’s Disconnected
Remember when Barack Obama said he could use his pen and phone to push his agenda outside of congressional authority? Remember when Joe Biden spent his first days in office signing stacks of executive orders? All that may be a ...
Grandstanding Politicos Ignore Violence in Black and Brown Communities
After members of the Patriot Front – a white nationalist group – marched in Boston in early July, they received a “justified backlash” from a wide range of local elected officials. Yet, as Project 21 member Rasheed Walters noted in ...
Despite White House Denial, Recession is Here
“It's official,” said Project 21 member Michael Austin, an economist. “Joe Biden has pushed the U.S. economy off the cliff.” For the second straight quarter, America’s gross domestic product – the measurement of economic output has contracted. That is what’s ...
