Tag: FEP Commentary

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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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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