Category: Published Commentaries

Is the Woke Corporate 'Worm' Finally Turning?

Is the Woke Corporate ‘Worm’ Finally Turning?

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
More than a few executives appear to be glimpsing the high costs of politicized corporate management. A chief driver of these revelations is surely the rolling market correction that has characterized 2022. At one point last week, the Nasdaq was ...
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Equity Businessman Frustrated

Equity Theory As a (Terrible) Strategy for Growth

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Many corporate executives have claimed that embracing “equity” theory at their companies (and, in the case of investment-house CEOs, trying to force equity on companies whether they like it or not) is in the objective, demonstrable best interest of shareholders ...
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Sneaky businessman Executive Self Dealing

A Legal Test for Evaluating Modern Corporate-Executive Self Dealing

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Proponents of stakeholder capitalism and ESG initiatives invariably claim that they are acting for the neutral, objective, bipartisan interests of everyone. Some weeks ago in these pages I considered why this is simply impossible, and attempted to demonstrate that whatever proponents may ...
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Working Together to Save Corporate America From Itself

Working Together to Save Corporate America From Itself

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
President Calvin Coolidge said, “The chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.” We were in 1925 and are a near-century later. Corporate CEOs, though, have increasingly ...
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Unionization In the Time of Automation

Unionization In the Time of Automation

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Unions have recently won organizational votes at New York City-area branches of Starbucks and Amazon, companies they have been trying to crack into for years. There is good reason to think that workers enticed into voting for unions in the 2020s will ...
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JPMorgan

Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan, and the Authoritarian Impulse

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
It appears that Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, really enjoys telling other people what to do, whether they’ve chosen to interact with him or not. A few days back billionaire Peter Thiel laid into Dimon (along with Larry Fink ...
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tax code

To Promote Fairness, Scrap the Tax Code

Commentary /
As we approach another year’s tax filing deadline, let’s take a moment to marvel at how truly idiotic the tax code has become. In its zeal to maximize revenue while advancing social good, Congress has created a code that produces ...
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Disney, Florida, and the Folly of Special Business Exemptions

Disney, Florida, and the Folly of Special Business Exemptions

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
1And then in the year of dread Wokeness the third, it came to pass in the Land of Dis, where Walt he begat him his line, 2but upon which in later days lay the rule of dark descendants not fit to ...
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Stakeholder Capitalism: Neither Capitalism Nor For Stakeholders

Stakeholder Capitalism: Neither Capitalism Nor For Stakeholders

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Long ago Voltaire noted that the Holy Roman Empire, decaying into ruin in the middle of Europe, was neither Holy nor Roman, nor an Empire. Most of my generation ran across the line, if they did, in a Cawfee Tawk skit on Saturday ...
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SEC

The SEC’s Climate-Disclosure Proposal Politicizes Corporate Oversight

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a new rule, one that would require companies to spend vast sums to collect and report information about their carbon and related emissions and their plans to move toward making no emissions that the SEC ...
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