Category: Companies

BlackRock Made An Oopsie

BlackRock Made An Oopsie

FEP Commentary /
In a RealClearMarkets commentary, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard reviews the annual Global Outlook of investment giant BlackRock, and marvels at what he finds: In its 2023 Global Outlook, BlackRock rued the close of what it called the Great Moderation, ...
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BlackRock Accidentally Admits Role In Reversal of Economic Good Times

FEP Commentary /
In its 2023 Global Outlook, BlackRock rued the close of what it called the Great Moderation, the 40-odd years since the policies of Reagan and Thatcher brought forth from the malaise of inflation and stagnation a great flourishing of human creativity ...
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Klaus Schwab WEF Agenda

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

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

FEP Commentary /
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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FEP Weighs in On Missouri Pulling $500 Million from BlackRock Over ‘Woke’ ESG Initiatives

Free Enterprise Project /
Missouri State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick announced on Oct. 18th that the Missouri State Employees’ Retirement System would divest all public equities managed by BlackRock. Missouri is joining a growing number of states who have pulled their retirement systems’ funds from ...
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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

FEP Commentary /
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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If Global Warming Is 'Existential,' Will Larry Fink Ration?

If Global Warming Is ‘Existential,’ Will Larry Fink Ration?

FEP Commentary /
If carbon emissions are a world-historical crisis, if they threaten the end of modern civilization, and if the only way to respond is to end those emissions, then we must all sacrifice, equally, the liberties and comforts that carbon emissions afford us ...
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Wise States Begin to Push Back Against BlackRock, Larry Fink

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Encouraging reports indicate that the more sensible of the states have finally begun to confront not only the leftist takeover of corporate boards and executive suites, but against the attempts by the modern malefactors of great power – Larry Fink ...
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