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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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Bob Iger is Ruining Disney

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Is Bob Iger purposefully trying to ruin Disney?  He seems to be on a self-destructive mission. In a commentary at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard notes numerous ways the Disney CEO has driven his once-robust entertainment colossus into ...
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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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The Four Groups Responsible for Woke Capitalism

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Who's responsible for the head-scratching bad behavior we've seen recently at corporations such as Target and Anheuser-Busch? In a new commentary published through InsideSources, Free Enterprise Project Associate Stefan Padfield points a finger at four groups enabling Corporate America's radical ...
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Stefan Padfield: Corporate America’s Radicalization Enabled by True Believers, Useful Idiots, Opportunists and Cowards

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It’s been a few months since Target and Anheuser-Busch set billions of dollars of shareholders’ money on fire because someone convinced them pushing transgenderism on kids is “the right thing for society” — but you may still be trying to understand what ...
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JPMorgan Chase Targets Anti-Woke Resisters — And Now Their Families Too

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"JPMorgan Chase is back to debanking," writes Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard. "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." In a RealClearMarkets ...
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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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