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Emperor Larry Fink

Scott Shepard: Is Emperor Larry Fink Silencing the Critics of His ESG Regime?

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It’s been clear since The World Economic Forum’s annual conference this winter that BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has tired of criticism of the globalist Davos regime and its principal satrapy, the Biden Administration in Washington. Recall his whining last year and again at Davos ...
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Chase Should Explain to Congress Why It Discriminates Against Conservatives

Chase Should Explain to Congress Why It Discriminates Against Conservatives

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While JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sometimes talks a good game, Chase Bank has been revealed to discriminate regularly against conservative customers, and then to lie and lie about it. Nineteen state attorneys general have now demanded that Chase mend ...
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Scott Shepard: ESG Means Biden Administration Priorities Forced on Businesses

Scott Shepard: ESG Means Biden Administration Priorities Forced on Businesses

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Last week, Alabama State Sen. Dan Roberts (R-Mountain Brook) introduced a bill to keep Alabama’s tax dollars away from companies that discriminate according to ESG criteria. That’s great news for Alabama; the bill deserves broad support and speedy passage. Alabama ...
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Scott Shepard: It's Congress's Turn to Address Chase's Discriminatory Banking Practices

Scott Shepard: It’s Congress’s Turn to Address Chase’s Discriminatory Banking Practices

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Chase Bank (of JP Morgan Chase) discriminates on the basis of religion and viewpoint, and then lies and lies and lies about it. Nineteen state attorneys general have demanded that the company knock it off. Given that JP Morgan – already too-big-to-fail ...
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Bud Light

Bud Light Travesty Is Only the Latest Proof That Woke Isn’t Working

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Making Bud Light more "relevant" and less "fratty" by signing it up to the trans agenda is turning out to be a mistake, but it's only the highest-profile of many proofs in recent weeks that wokeness is hitting corporate bottom ...
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Bud Light

Scott Shepard: The Results Are Coming In For ‘Woke’ Corporate Policies, and They’re Messy

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As the 1979 General Election neared, the Conservatives hired the advertising firm of Saatchi & Saatchi to make artwork (for the ‘70s British equivalent of billboards) for the campaign. What they came up with was a drawing of a long line of ...
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SEC

Scott Shepard: A Failed SEC Must Be Wholly Rebuilt From the Ground Up

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It’s hardly news that Gary Gensler’s Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) is partisan and corrupt in ways that resemble other Biden-era agencies, such as Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the blackshirted FBI goon squad led by the execrable ...
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bank

Banks, Though Forgiven, Continue to Discriminate Against Conservatives

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The too-big-to-fail banks, and the other banks the government favors, are backstopped against depositor loss without limit. Smaller banks are not similarly protected. The result is to draw assets to those protected banks -- and to put all of us ...
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Chase Bank

Scott Shepard: As Banks Morph Into Utilities, Too Big To Fail Means Too Big for Bias

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Here we are, in another round of de facto bank bailouts. This time investors seem to be (rightly) losing their investments, but depositors are to be covered fully – as long as they bank at “systemically significant” banks. And investors at the ...
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BlackRock

BlackRock CEO Will Still Use Investors’ Money to Push His Personal Agenda

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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has a different audience for his annual letter this year (investors instead of CEOs) and he's singing different words, but the tune is the same. As Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard writes at RealClearMarkets, Fink ...
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