Category: Free Enterprise Project
Goodyear’s Rough Ride Has a Simple Solution
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has hit a very bumpy patch of pavement. Caught trying to go woke, it is now on the defensive to avoid losing customers and going broke. In a Townhall commentary, Scott Shepard – deputy ...
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How Woke CEOs Traded Our Future For BLM Approval
An astonishing number of corporate leaders nationwide – who should all know better – have jumped to the support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization and fellow-traveling groups and have boosted claims that the riotous hordes defiling the downtowns (and sometimes the ...
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Sign This Petition: Help to Protect Viewpoint Diversity on College Campuses
One of our greatest failings, we on the conservative and libertarian right, has been to allow hard-core leftists to take over the Republic's colleges and universities. Once Marxist, anti-Western, anti-American, radical troublemakers were indulged at our schools. Now they run ...
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DOL vs. NPR: A Mixed Week For The Feds In Respecting Americans’ Property
A mixed week for the federal government last week (so, better than many). The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is acting again to protect current and future pensioners from mismanagement that would cost them their retirement security. Meanwhile, National Public ...
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Rebutting Those Pushing Corporations to the Far Left
Readers of this blog will know that a significant coalition of leftwing activist groups, led by the As You Sow organization, has long worked to push American corporations to the left, into the political and policy realm of those who ...
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The Politicized Corporation Trap
Fatally Flawed Claims of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) Proposals The first in a series analyzing claims by proponents of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) and stakeholder primacy policies about the feasibility and value of their proposals. ESG proponents assert ...
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SEC Rule Fixes Shadowy Stock Strategies
Too many liberal shareholder proposals enjoy undue influence. That’s because fund managers who control vast amounts of stock owned by other people have “farmed their duty” of due diligence out to politicized proxy advisory services – relying on third-party advice ...
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Is Disney Dropping Woke Capitalism Or Doubling Down?
The entertainment industry (including one-time news media outlets) has struggled in recent years. Some of the struggle arises from inevitable technological change, which has been exacerbated by COVID and the hyperventilative response. But the industry has also kneecapped itself, turning ...
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How To Turn Around Goodyear’s Very Bad Week? Viewpoint Equality
Goodyear followed discrimination against employees with lies and evasions last week, before finally making a quasi-apology and halting retreat. Market and public reaction was swift and deep. The company will soon learn that it must do more. Only real, enforceable ...
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New SEC Rules May Force More Honesty From ESG Proponents
In a move likely to help investors and blunt the left’s attack on American businesses, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently finalized a rule requiring proxy advisory services to provide their clients with corporations’ rebuttals to the services’ advice ...
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