Category: Published Commentaries

Larry Fink

Ethan Peck: BlackRock’s Larry Fink Peddles The Left’s Radical ESG Agenda

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In another one of his annual letters — this time to investors instead of CEOs — BlackRock CEO and self-appointed oligarch of the world economy, Larry Fink, proved once again that he can’t help but contradict himself, lie to shareholders, mischaracterize basic ...
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Scott Shepard: SVB and ESG: The Big Picture Is Even Worse

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It quickly emerged after Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was shuttered two weekends back that it had spent millions of shareholder (and, it appears, depositor) money for partisan political purposes that lie beyond the scope of its directors’ and executives’ statutory remit, including on ...
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Diversity DEI discrimination

Scott Shepard: States Can Stop the Outsourcing of Race Discrimination by Corporations

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Last week The Federalist published an important story detailing how various companies are “laundering” or “out-sourcing” their efforts to discriminate against so-called “non-diverse” employees on the basis of race, sex and orientation to non-profits, charities and public benefit corporations. It reported that [i]n response to ...
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Scott Shepard: Chips Subsidies Will Fail As Moon Shots and Covid Vaccines Already Have

Scott Shepard: Chips Subsidies Will Fail As Moon Shots and Covid Vaccines Already Have

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Really, that headline is too long. “Industrial policy will fail,” would have been enough. It’s exhausting that we collectively have to learn this again and again. Industrial policy does not work because it relies on central planning by government “experts,” ...
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Melissa Ortiz: Oh, the Places I Might Go!

Melissa Ortiz: Oh, the Places I Might Go!

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A longtime lover of all things Dr. Seuss, one of my favorite books is “Oh, the Places You Will Go!” It is a popular gift for graduations and other milestone celebrations, but it resonates with me because it is all ...
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Illegal Immigration Makes Black Americans Less Safe

Illegal Immigration Makes Black Americans Less Safe

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by Horace Cooper and Tom Homan For the last several years, there has been significant media attention paid to our nation’s struggle with immigration, with much of the focus on our southern border and the impact on the nation as ...
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Scott Shepard: Frustrate the New Discrimination With National Declaration Day

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Conservatives have for some time taken to quoting Saul Alinsky that would-be reformers should “[m]ake the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” Often the quote is deployed in tandem with frustration at how hard it is to do that ...
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carbon emissions

Scott Shepard: If Carbon Emissions Are ‘Material Disclosures,’ So Is Everything Else

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Recent reports suggest that Gary Gensler, the hard-left Chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), has realized that his proposed carbon-disclosure rule is so sweeping and costly as to guarantee that the courts will strike it down. He is now mulling ...
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Scott Shepard: The Wokification of Corporate Life Is No Kind of Capitalism

Scott Shepard: The Wokification of Corporate Life Is No Kind of Capitalism

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Concerns about ChatGPT – which is an amazing new artificial-intelligence program that can write better than the average Buzzfeed writer and perhaps (a harder test) the average undergraduate (unless it’s just a mirage) – sparked concern among both writers, who realized that they ...
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Larry Fink BlackRock

Scott Shepard: With Davos 2023 Wrapped, How To Cease Being a Comic Book Villain

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I was told recently by someone in a position to know that Larry Fink has been hurt by my having referred to him in these pages as a comic-book villain. My first reaction, this insight arising in a discussion with ...
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