Friday, the 27th of January, is Holocaust Remembrance Day. The theme this year is “Memory, Dignity and Justice.” It’s fitting in so many ways, especially when the first victims of the Holocaust are considered. As part of a trip to ...
Vis Raghavan, co-head of global investment banking at JPMorgan Chase, reported recently that most of the company’s employees had returned to working in the office. Maybe it’s time for CEO Jamie Dimon to spend a little more time there as well, as ...
In its 2023 Global Outlook, BlackRock rued the close of what it called the Great Moderation, the 40-odd years since the policies of Reagan and Thatcher brought forth from the malaise of inflation and stagnation a great flourishing of human creativity ...
This commentary by Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard was originally published at RealClearMarkets. An ever-growing series of red states have pulled some or all of their assets from BlackRock’s management in light of that company’s oft-repeated commitment to ignore ...
The fight against ESG will be long and hard – and anyway is just the opening campaign in a much, much longer fight against the leftists’ takeover the of the social, cultural, educational and governmental power centers of western life. The proponents ...
Good heavens, it’s been an ugly, stupid few weeks for American corporate executives and the companies they lead, hasn’t it? Even uglier and stupider than the usual new depths they’ve reached since the “mostly peaceful” summer of 2020 – which ...
More than 60 corporations signed on to an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case heard shortly before the midterm elections that will determine whether diversity-excused race discrimination may continue in American higher education. In making their case, these corporations demonstrated the corruption ...
There’s been a lot of sloppy thinking about inflation in the run-up to this week’s elections. Campaigning lends itself to broad, rather than nuanced, pronouncements. Successful governance requires the reverse. And so as the new Congress wends its way to ...
It looks, ladies and gentlemen, as though a great many millennials who were not trained to have any faculty for objectivity or reflectiveness are going to discover the market value of boundless self-regard and of the absolute conviction – without ...
BlackRock looks to be in some trouble. It’s assets under management have fallen from $10-11 trillion to $8 trillion, with profits falling 16 percent in the third quarter. Much of this is the result of falling markets, but for BlackRock, that's no excuse because ...
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Category: Published Commentaries
Melissa Ortiz: Lost Lessons of the Holocaust
Scott Shepard: Is Jamie Dimon Aware of the Partisan Double Standard Inside His Bank?
Scott Shepard: BlackRock Accidentally Admits Role In Reversal of Economic Good Times
Scott Shepard: Red States Have Begun Pulling Money from BlackRock. Now What?
Cosmetic Changes at Disney and Vanguard Don’t Necessarily Signal ESG Retreat
Formerly In the Soviet Union, the Locus of Evil Resides In Davos
Corporations Undermine Their Anti-Discrimination With Support of Discrimination
Deficits and Spending Are a Tax, But They Do NOT Cause Inflation
Twilight of the Twitter Toll-Booth Trolls, and Their FB Friends
BlackRock Conflates and Confuses In ‘Setting Record Straight’ On Energy Boycotts