Category: Free Enterprise Project
Scott Shepard: Bob Iger’s Diminished Disney: Time Shares, Betting Lines, and Inoffensive Retreads
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 ...
Stefan Padfield: ESG Proponents Falsely Claim to Be Capitalists
Leftist pushers of ESG investments have been laughably referring to themselves as the real capitalists. In a commentary published at Newsmax, Free Enterprise Project Associate Stefan Padfield provides a litmus test for these frauds -- better referred to as “crony ...
Scott Shepard: Investment-House Collusion Suffocates Market Signals
In the below commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard wants to know: What shall we call a combination by three giant investment houses to use other people’s assets to force behaviors that reduce the productivity of ...
Stefan Padfield: Directors Need to Account for Reverse Discrimination
In a commentary recently published by Newsmax, Free Enterprise Project Associate Stefan Padfield pulls back the curtain on reverse racism in Corporate America, racism which company leaders hide in plain sight using the innocuous-sounding phrase "diversity, equity and inclusion" (DEI) ...
Let’s Target the Weakest Links in Our Fight Against Woke Capitalism
As the majority of American corporations remain entrenched on the left side of policy debates, conservatives may wonder if there's any hope in pushing them back to neutral and out of the realm of Woke Capitalism. Free Enterprise Project Associate ...
Stefan Padfield: Questions Every Corporate Director Should Answer in a Post-Woke World
In the aftermath of recent controversies involving Target, Anheuser-Busch and Disney, it's evident that companies' woke positions could very well damage their bottom lines. The true owners of these companies -- the shareholders -- have a right to hold corporate ...
Scott Shepard: Companies Should Prioritize Profits of Everyday Investors Over the Whims of Bill Gates & His Buddies
In an op-ed published by RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard uses the Gates Foundation's massive purchase of Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) stock to explain why true capitalism -- as opposed to c-suite insurrectionism -- requires that fiduciary duty run ...
FEP Turns up the Heat on the Biggest ESG Offenders
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 ...
Stefan Padfield: This Labor Day, Reflect on Why ESG Is Bad for Workers
Recently, the California State Retirement System (CalSTRS) doubled down on its pledge “to achieve a net zero investment portfolio by 2050, or sooner.” CalSTRS defended this decision by arguing that the steps it is taking to achieve net zero carbon emissions “are ...
Stefan Padfield: Break Up Overboarding to Break Up Woke Capitalism
In light of the July 12-14 hearings before the House Financial Services Committee examining the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors on financial decision-making, there has been a lot of talk about ways to rein in what might loosely be ...
