Tag: FEP Commentary

BlackRock

Scott Shepard: BlackRock Accidentally Admits Role In Reversal of Economic Good Times

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In its 2023 Global Outlook, BlackRock rued the close of what it called the Great Moderation, the 40-odd years since the policies of Reagan and Thatcher brought forth from the malaise of inflation and stagnation a great flourishing of human creativity ...
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BlackRock

Withdrawing Money From BlackRock Is Only a First Step

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Many states and some other sensible investors have begun to pull their money out of BlackRock, tired of having the power of their assets commandeered by Larry Fink to advance his personal policy preferences. But withdrawal is only a first ...
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BlackRock

Scott Shepard: Red States Have Begun Pulling Money from BlackRock. Now What?

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This commentary by Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard was originally published at RealClearMarkets. An ever-growing series of red states have pulled some or all of their assets from BlackRock’s management in light of that company’s oft-repeated commitment to ignore ...
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Disney shareholders

Cosmetic Changes at Disney and Vanguard Don’t Necessarily Signal ESG Retreat

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The fight against ESG will be long and hard – and anyway is just the opening campaign in a much, much longer fight against the leftists’ takeover the of the social, cultural, educational and governmental power centers of western life. The proponents ...
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Klaus Schwab WEF Agenda

Formerly In the Soviet Union, the Locus of Evil Resides In Davos

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Good heavens, it’s been an ugly, stupid few weeks for American corporate executives and the companies they lead, hasn’t it? Even uglier and stupider than the usual new depths they’ve reached since the “mostly peaceful” summer of 2020 – which ...
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Diversity DEI discrimination

Corporations Undermine Their Anti-Discrimination With Support of Discrimination

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More than 60 corporations signed on to an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case heard shortly before the midterm elections that will determine whether diversity-excused race discrimination may continue in American higher education. In making their case, these corporations demonstrated the corruption ...
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Deficits and Spending Are a Tax, But They Do NOT Cause Inflation

Deficits and Spending Are a Tax, But They Do NOT Cause Inflation

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There’s been a lot of sloppy thinking about inflation in the run-up to this week’s elections. Campaigning lends itself to broad, rather than nuanced, pronouncements. Successful governance requires the reverse. And so as the new Congress wends its way to ...
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Twilight of the Twitter Toll-Booth Trolls, and Their FB Friends

Twilight of the Twitter Toll-Booth Trolls, and Their FB Friends

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It looks, ladies and gentlemen, as though a great many millennials who were not trained to have any faculty for objectivity or reflectiveness are going to discover the market value of boundless self-regard and of the absolute conviction – without ...
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BlackRock

BlackRock Conflates and Confuses In ‘Setting Record Straight’ On Energy Boycotts

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BlackRock looks to be in some trouble. It’s assets under management have fallen from $10-11 trillion to $8 trillion, with profits falling 16 percent in the third quarter. Much of this is the result of falling markets, but for BlackRock, that's no excuse because ...
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Disney

In Ian’s Wake Even Disney Gets Corporate Activism Right, For Once

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Sensible, neutral corporate activism efforts are possible. As Florida and the rest of the southeast assess the damage from Ian, even Disney appears to be getting it right. Long before basements had finished drying or residents finished digging out, a ...
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