Category: Published Commentaries

Stefan Padfield: How Starbucks Avoided Accountability for Racial Discrimination

Stefan Padfield: How Starbucks Avoided Accountability for Racial Discrimination

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For those of you wondering whatever became of our lawsuit against Starbucks, Free Enterprise Project Associate Stefan Padfield provides an update in a commentary published by The Washington Times. The bottom line: Instead of a judge in Washington State doing ...
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Scott Shepard: Investment-House Collusion Suffocates Market Signals

Scott Shepard: Investment-House Collusion Suffocates Market Signals

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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 ...
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Stefan Padfield: Directors Need to Account for Reverse Discrimination

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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) ...
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Stefan Padfield: Questions Every Corporate Director Should Answer in a Post-Woke World

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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 ...
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Scott Shepard: Companies Should Prioritize Profits of Everyday Investors Over the Whims of Bill Gates & His Buddies

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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 ...
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Stefan Padfield: This Labor Day, Reflect on Why ESG Is Bad for Workers

Stefan Padfield: This Labor Day, Reflect on Why ESG Is Bad for Workers

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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 ...
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Stefan Padfield: Break Up Overboarding to Break Up Woke Capitalism

Stefan Padfield: Break Up Overboarding to Break Up Woke Capitalism

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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 ...
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Stefan Padfield: The ‘Hypothetical Conflict’ That May Be at the Root of Disney’s Woes

Stefan Padfield: The ‘Hypothetical Conflict’ That May Be at the Root of Disney’s Woes

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Disney is not doing well. As of July 22, the stock price has fallen 15 percent over the last year, while the S&P 500 is up almost 15 percent. That means Disney is down 30 percent compared to the broader ...
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Scott Shepard: Hollywood Writers Have Scripted Their Own Redundancy

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For the first time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was still president of the Screen Actors’ Guild, Hollywood’s writers and actors have gone on strike at the same time. This strike is technically larger than that one, since it involves ...
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Scott Shepard: Bob Iger’s Dark Disney Magic: A Wrecking Ball for Wokeness

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Benjamin Franklin published a tract in London and Philadelphia in 1773 explaining the Rules by Which a Great Empire May be Reduced to a Small One. As good satire, it offered both humor and warning, but apparently the British no more ...
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