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Scott Shepard: Oops JPMorgan Chase Did It Again…Again

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JPMorgan Chase is back to debanking. Once again, it’s not providing any explanations. And once again it’s targeting people who dare to question the Left Government/Woke Business conspiracy against liberty. At about the same time, it appears, Chase debanked, without warning, Drs ...
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Proxy Advisors’ Partisanship Pushes Corporations to the Left

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The president and CEO of proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recently claimed that his firm's advice is "apolitical" and "impartial." "This is just nonsense," replies Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard. In a commentary published by RealClearMarkets, Scott ...
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Scott Shepard: The Profoundly Partisan Ways of Proxy Advisory Firms

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A lot of the responsibility for pushing corporations hard to the left in recent years lies with an until-recently little-known pair of proxy-advisory companies, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis. The profound partisan bias (as well as the profound ...
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Disney's Silence Speaks Volumes After Samuel L. Jackson Insults Conservatives

Disney’s Silence Speaks Volumes After Samuel L. Jackson Insults Conservatives

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When actors choose to use their freedom of speech to offend half the country while promoting a movie, shouldn't we expect the company making the movie to feel responsible for damage control? In a commentary published by the Daily Caller, ...
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Stefan Padfield: Is Disney Complicit in Hate Speech?

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Famed actor and producer Samuel L. Jackson effectively told Rolling Stone that conservatives are racist rednecks. In light of the fact that Jackson was promoting his latest Marvel Universe project at the time, does Disney’s silence in response make them ...
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You Can Put Lipstick on ESG and Call It Conscientious Capitalism, but It’s Still ESG

You Can Put Lipstick on ESG and Call It Conscientious Capitalism, but It’s Still ESG

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In 1992, Texas's then-Governor Ann Richards famously said, "You can put lipstick on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig." We could well apply her words to BlackRock CEO/Chairman/Emperor Larry Fink, who thinks renaming ESG "conscientious ...
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Are We ‘Anti-ESG’ or Simply ‘Pro-Fiduciary Duty”?

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"Advocates for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policies label opponents as 'anti-ESG.' But what we really are is pro-fiduciary-duty," write Scott Shepard and Stefan Padfield -- two members of our Free Enterprise Project (FEP) dream team -- in a new ...
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Larry Fink

Scott Shepard: Larry Fink Abandons Failed “ESG” Phrasing for ESG Phrasing

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Larry Fink is “ashamed.” Quite right, you may respond. But this being Larry Fink, he’s not ashamed of what he should be ashamed of. He’s not ashamed of misusing other people’s assets to push his own personal policy preferences. He’s not ashamed ...
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Scott Shepard & Stefan Padfield: The Pro-Fiduciary-Duty Movement is Winning

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Advocates for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policies label opponents as “anti-ESG.” But what we really are is pro-fiduciary-duty. On June 1, 2023, Heidi Welsh, Executive Director at the Sustainable Investments Institute, posted “Anti-ESG Shareholder Proposals in 2023” on the ...
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Woke CEOs May Play Dumb, But Judges Will Know Better

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You would think that corporate executives would be smart. After all, they have been given powerful positions and a lot of money to make good decisions for their companies. And yet those justifying their woke positions seem to be completely ...
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