Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, thinks very highly of himself. So highly that he expects the whole of the American corporate world – and, derivatively, you personally – to bow down before him. The super-fun kicker? The great height ... READ MORE
Any business-governance theory that, if honestly applied, collapses into neurotic indecision paralysis at the fundamental question of setting wages is a failed theory. Well then, RIP “stakeholder primacy,” 2019-2021 – at least as an honest theory. Of course, as has ... READ MORE
Many of the country’s largest corporations have abandoned their traditional roles as, you know, businesses to jump hard into politics – always, it seems, on the side of the woke performative left. The partisan flavor of the companies’ metamorphoses is ... READ MORE
Suppose that you’d been a sentient adult on December 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Now posit a friend, a self-proclaimed advocate for freedom – which, in the United States, means a conservative or libertarian, a person of the ... READ MORE
The directors of the Nasdaq, once an entirely innocuous governing board for a stock exchange, have waded deep into public policy, seeking to force corporations to establish board-member quotas for women and for certain preferred minority groups. Because the effort ... READ MORE
Now that a “Biden”-Harris administration looks inevitable, we can rest assured that a new fight for socialized medicine will heat up again under whatever initially anodyne label gets used this time (likely it will be “single payer,” at least at ... READ MORE
Nasdaq seeks to coerce company boards to adhere to new 'diversity' quotas based on race, sex, and sexual behavior. Wall Street has always hated Main Street. Never before, however, has it been so open and brazen in wielding that animus ... READ MORE
2020, amirite? <cue cymbals> Yeah, it’s been a wild and pretty awful year, in many, many ways. I would not have predicted most of its most salient features, and have no interest in offering any predictive hostages to the looming ... READ MORE
A group of genes passed down from human cousins who went extinct 50,000 years ago explains why inhabitants of certain regions of the world are far more susceptible to COVID-19 than people living elsewhere, according to new interdisciplinary research. Two ... READ MORE
Everyone knows that Goldman Sachs pretty much owned the Obama Administration. And it appears that Larry Fink and Blackrock with be the real deedholders and architects of the Biden term. (You didn’t expect Joe Biden to be in control, did ... READ MORE
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Category: Published Commentaries
The Preposterous Pose Of Mr. Larry Fink
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The Minimum Wage Is An Impossible Conundrum For Honest “Stakeholder Capitalism”
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Occupy Twitter?
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How To Save A Republic
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Nasdaq Adopts Mob-Style Tactics To Push Woke Agenda
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Socialized Medicine: Karen Locking You In Your House, Forever
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Nasdaq Wants To Push Companies To Hire Fewer White, Straight Men
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A Great Awakening: What 2020 Has Wrought
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Ancient Migration Patterns Offer Explanation for Unequal Susceptibility to COVID-19
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Will Blackrock-Owned Biden Admin’s Climate Policy Apply To All, Or Just Us Peasants?
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