Category: Companies

State Street

Scott Shepard: Partisan Bias Shot Through Operations at Vanguard, State Street

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While BlackRock garners most of the attention for misusing other people's money to push woke ends, investment houses Vanguard and State Street -- the other members of the Big 3 -- are in many ways worse. Both of these shops ...
Sarah Rehberg: Wall Street Is In Bed With Crazy Climate Activists

Sarah Rehberg: Wall Street Is In Bed With Crazy Climate Activists

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Climate Collusion With Consequences? In a commentary published by The Daily Caller, Free Enterprise Project Deputy Director Sarah Rehberg notes that "the ESG lobby has apparently done such a good job bragging about its partnerships that federal lawmakers are investigating whether ...
Scott Shepard: Bob Iger's Diminished Disney: Time Shares, Betting Lines, and Inoffensive Retreads

Scott Shepard: Bob Iger’s Diminished Disney: Time Shares, Betting Lines, and Inoffensive Retreads

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In a commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard notes that Disney CEO Bob Iger has so abused Disney that its plans to save itself rely on helping people bet on amateur sports, hawking time shares and ...
FEP Turns up the Heat on the Biggest ESG Offenders

FEP Turns up the Heat on the Biggest ESG Offenders

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BlackRock, proxy advisory firms and other behemoths have been using their size and influence -- not to mention your investments -- to force other corporations to adopt a leftwing agenda. But Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard says plans are ...
Disney Gay

How Much Influence Does the Human Rights Campaign Have On Disney Decisions?

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The Walt Disney Company once seemed untouchable. But oh how the mighty Mouse is falling. With Disney profits plummeting, Free Enterprise Project Associate Stefan Padfield explores possible explanations, wading through the muddy swamp of Florida politics and finding a likely ...
Stefan Padfield: The ‘Hypothetical Conflict’ That May Be at the Root of Disney’s Woes

Stefan Padfield: The ‘Hypothetical Conflict’ That May Be at the Root of Disney’s Woes

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Disney is not doing well. As of July 22, the stock price has fallen 15 percent over the last year, while the S&P 500 is up almost 15 percent. That means Disney is down 30 percent compared to the broader ...
Bob Iger Disney Mickey Mouse Minnie

Bob Iger is Ruining Disney

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Is Bob Iger purposefully trying to ruin Disney?  He seems to be on a self-destructive mission. In a commentary at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard notes numerous ways the Disney CEO has driven his once-robust entertainment colossus into ...
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 ...
Disney's Silence Speaks Volumes After Samuel L. Jackson Insults Conservatives

Disney’s Silence Speaks Volumes After Samuel L. Jackson Insults Conservatives

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When actors choose to use their freedom of speech to offend half the country while promoting a movie, shouldn't we expect the company making the movie to feel responsible for damage control? In a commentary published by the Daily Caller, ...
Samuel L Jackson representing Disney Marvel at Comic Con

Stefan Padfield: Is Disney Complicit in Hate Speech?

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Famed actor and producer Samuel L. Jackson effectively told Rolling Stone that conservatives are racist rednecks. In light of the fact that Jackson was promoting his latest Marvel Universe project at the time, does Disney’s silence in response make them ...

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