Category: Free Enterprise Project

Stefan Padfield: Are The Big 5 Liars?

Stefan Padfield: Are The Big 5 Liars?

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The "Big 5" of corporate governance -- BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, ISS and Glass Lewis -- are, without a doubt, carrying water for the left. In a commentary published by Newsmax, Free Enterprise Project Associate Stefan Padfield wonders if the ...
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Scott Shepard: George Soros is Doing All He Can Do to Destroy America and the English-Speaking World

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Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard has to give it to George Soros: If I were setting out to destroy not only the United States but the whole of the Anglosphere -- the whole of the English-speaking world, the world ...
Scott Shepard: Can Corporations Really Trust the Conference Board?

Scott Shepard: Can Corporations Really Trust the Conference Board?

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In a commentary published by RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard targets the supposedly "independent, nonpartisan" Conference Board, which claims its advice can be trusted while making no efforts to dialogue with more than one side of the policy ...
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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 ...
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Stefan Padfield: Radicalism Behind Corporate Silence to Hamas Atrocities

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Shareholders must hold corporations accountable for their hypocritical activism, especially those who threw reckless support behind Black Lives Matter before turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed by Hamas. In a commentary published at Newsmax, Free Enterprise Project Associate ...
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Scott Shepard: October 2023: The Month the Net-Zero Dream Died

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For years we've been warning CEOs about the absurdity of their net-zero emissions ambitions, and recent developments indicate that we've been right all along. "The great public-private push to force adoption of new and unreliable technologies before they have been ...
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Scott Shepard: Elon Musk Is Right About George Soros’s Efforts To Wreck the Anglosphere

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Talk about a Reverse Midas Touch: Every American policy George Soros touches seems to make things worse for Americans. In a column published at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard notes, "if my goal were to destroy the United ...
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Scott Shepard: German Elections Sound Death Knell for ‘Decarbonization’

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"Everywhere you look," writes Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard, "except in the dregs of the West (e.g., California), reality is biting back and net-zero dreams are dissolving." In a commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Scott uses the recent elections in ...
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Stefan Padfield: Nasdaq’s Absurd Diversity Rule Will Replace Women With Men Who Identify As Women to Achieve Equality for Women

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In a commentary published by The Daily Caller, Free Enterprise Project Associate Stefan Padfield breaks down the problems with a recent ruling allowing Nasdaq to implement wide-reaching diversity rules upon its listed companies. Stefan also notes the absurdity found in ...
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Stefan Padfield: ESG, DEI & Antisemitism

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There are many, many reasons to do away with the corporate acronym agendas of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) and ESG (environmental, social and governance), and the Free Enterprise Project's Stefan Padfield has now added one more: "there is a ...

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