Category: BLK

You Can Put Lipstick on ESG and Call It Conscientious Capitalism, but It’s Still ESG

You Can Put Lipstick on ESG and Call It Conscientious Capitalism, but It’s Still ESG

FEP Commentary /
In 1992, Texas's then-Governor Ann Richards famously said, "You can put lipstick on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig." We could well apply her words to BlackRock CEO/Chairman/Emperor Larry Fink, who thinks renaming ESG "conscientious ...
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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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Exit to the left

It’s Not an Accident That Corporate America Is Moving in Lockstep to the Left

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How have companies like Anheuser-Busch and Target drifted so far to the left that they seem tone deaf to the values of their consumers? Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Director Scott Shepard talked recently with Stella Escobedo of the One America ...
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BlackRock

Conservative Shareholders Demand BlackRock Account for Impacts of Racist Policies

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Calls for CEO Fink to Live Equitably Washington, D.C. - Today, Scott Shepard - director of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) - presents a proposal at the BlackRock annual shareholder meeting that, if approved, ...
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Discrimination, Misinformation and Decarbonization!

Discrimination, Misinformation and Decarbonization!

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Conservative Shareholder Activists Present Seven Proposals Addressing Corporate/Government Collusion, Debanking of Conservatives, Radical Decarbonization Efforts, Racial Equity Audits and First Amendment Violations Washington, D.C. - Shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present proposals at ...
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Emperor Larry Fink

Leftist CEOs Conspire to Take Down Fox News

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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and "his fellow Davoscenti may well have teamed up to silence a primary American voice opposing the C-suite insurrection," writes Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard in a new RealClearMarkets commentary. There was some speculation last ...
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Emperor Larry Fink

Scott Shepard: Is Emperor Larry Fink Silencing the Critics of His ESG Regime?

FEP Commentary /
It’s been clear since The World Economic Forum’s annual conference this winter that BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has tired of criticism of the globalist Davos regime and its principal satrapy, the Biden Administration in Washington. Recall his whining last year and again at Davos ...
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Scott Shepard: ESG Means Biden Administration Priorities Forced on Businesses

Scott Shepard: ESG Means Biden Administration Priorities Forced on Businesses

FEP Commentary /
Last week, Alabama State Sen. Dan Roberts (R-Mountain Brook) introduced a bill to keep Alabama’s tax dollars away from companies that discriminate according to ESG criteria. That’s great news for Alabama; the bill deserves broad support and speedy passage. Alabama ...
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BlackRock

BlackRock CEO Will Still Use Investors’ Money to Push His Personal Agenda

FEP Commentary /
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has a different audience for his annual letter this year (investors instead of CEOs) and he's singing different words, but the tune is the same. As Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard writes at RealClearMarkets, Fink ...
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Larry Fink

Larry the Liar: BlackRock’s Fink Misleads Investors Again Despite Calculatingly Toning Down Woke Rhetoric

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In a new commentary at The Daily Caller, Free Enterprise Project Associate Ethan Peck breaks down BlackRock CEO Larry Fink's latest annual letter: Larry Fink proved once again that he can’t help but contradict himself, lie to shareholders, mischaracterize basic ...
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