Tag: FEP Commentary

Larry Fink

Larry the Liar: BlackRock’s Fink Misleads Investors Again Despite Calculatingly Toning Down Woke Rhetoric

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In a new commentary at The Daily Caller, Free Enterprise Project Associate Ethan Peck breaks down BlackRock CEO Larry Fink's latest annual letter: Larry Fink proved once again that he can’t help but contradict himself, lie to shareholders, mischaracterize basic ...
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BlackRock

Scott Shepard: An Open Letter to BlackRock Investors

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Dear BlackRock Investors: Larry Fink finally got around to a 2023 annual letter. In it he spends more than 9,000 words to confuse the picture about what’s really on tap for 2023: He knows he’s doing you wrong, violating his fiduciary ...
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Larry Fink

Ethan Peck: BlackRock’s Larry Fink Peddles The Left’s Radical ESG Agenda

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In another one of his annual letters — this time to investors instead of CEOs — BlackRock CEO and self-appointed oligarch of the world economy, Larry Fink, proved once again that he can’t help but contradict himself, lie to shareholders, mischaracterize basic ...
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SVB Bank Bust

Silicon Valley Bank Bust is a Lesson in ESG Folly

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Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) wasted a lot of other people's money on menacing ESG initiatives, but the ESG problem at SVB went deeper, as Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard explains in a new RealClearMarkets commentary. ESG proponents went deep ...
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Silicon Valley Bank SVB

Scott Shepard: SVB and ESG: The Big Picture Is Even Worse

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It quickly emerged after Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was shuttered two weekends back that it had spent millions of shareholder (and, it appears, depositor) money for partisan political purposes that lie beyond the scope of its directors’ and executives’ statutory remit, including on ...
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How States Can Stop Outsourced Discrimination

How States Can Stop Outsourced Discrimination

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Recently The Federalist reported on the ways in which a number of corporations are outsourcing equity-based discrimination: donating shareholder assets to nonprofits, charitable corporations and others that discriminate on the basis of race, sex and orientation. It's not at all ...
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Diversity DEI discrimination

Scott Shepard: States Can Stop the Outsourcing of Race Discrimination by Corporations

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Last week The Federalist published an important story detailing how various companies are “laundering” or “out-sourcing” their efforts to discriminate against so-called “non-diverse” employees on the basis of race, sex and orientation to non-profits, charities and public benefit corporations. It reported that [i]n response to ...
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Scott Shepard: Chips Subsidies Will Fail As Moon Shots and Covid Vaccines Already Have

Scott Shepard: Chips Subsidies Will Fail As Moon Shots and Covid Vaccines Already Have

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Really, that headline is too long. “Industrial policy will fail,” would have been enough. It’s exhausting that we collectively have to learn this again and again. Industrial policy does not work because it relies on central planning by government “experts,” ...
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Fight Leftist Discrimination With National Declaration Day

Fight Leftist Discrimination With National Declaration Day

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"Here’s a plan to defeat equity-based discrimination by playing by the rules of the discriminators," writes Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard at RealClearMarkets: Let’s all declare ourselves – preferably on the same day to underscore the point, but really ...
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Sneaky businessman Executive Self Dealing

Scott Shepard: Frustrate the New Discrimination With National Declaration Day

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Conservatives have for some time taken to quoting Saul Alinsky that would-be reformers should “[m]ake the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” Often the quote is deployed in tandem with frustration at how hard it is to do that ...
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