Tag: Free Enterprise Project Commentaries

SEC

SEC Sides With Woke Money Manager to Maintain Viewpoint Discrimination, Silence Shareholders

Our Country’s Corporations Shouldn’t Be Yet Another Enforcer of the Far-Left Agenda The “woke” corporate executives who have embraced a new stakeholder capitalism that allows them to inflict their political preferences on their employees and the public also talk a ...
Is the Woke Corporate 'Worm' Finally Turning?

Is the Woke Corporate ‘Worm’ Finally Turning?

More than a few executives appear to be glimpsing the high costs of politicized corporate management. A chief driver of these revelations is surely the rolling market correction that has characterized 2022. At one point last week, the Nasdaq was ...
Equity Businessman Frustrated

Equity Theory As a (Terrible) Strategy for Growth

Many corporate executives have claimed that embracing “equity” theory at their companies (and, in the case of investment-house CEOs, trying to force equity on companies whether they like it or not) is in the objective, demonstrable best interest of shareholders ...
Sneaky businessman Executive Self Dealing

A Legal Test for Evaluating Modern Corporate-Executive Self Dealing

Proponents of stakeholder capitalism and ESG initiatives invariably claim that they are acting for the neutral, objective, bipartisan interests of everyone. Some weeks ago in these pages I considered why this is simply impossible, and attempted to demonstrate that whatever proponents may ...
Working Together to Save Corporate America From Itself

Working Together to Save Corporate America From Itself

President Calvin Coolidge said, “The chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.” We were in 1925 and are a near-century later. Corporate CEOs, though, have increasingly ...
Unionization In the Time of Automation

Unionization In the Time of Automation

Unions have recently won organizational votes at New York City-area branches of Starbucks and Amazon, companies they have been trying to crack into for years. There is good reason to think that workers enticed into voting for unions in the 2020s will ...
JPMorgan

Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan, and the Authoritarian Impulse

It appears that Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, really enjoys telling other people what to do, whether they’ve chosen to interact with him or not. A few days back billionaire Peter Thiel laid into Dimon (along with Larry Fink ...
Disney, Florida, and the Folly of Special Business Exemptions

Disney, Florida, and the Folly of Special Business Exemptions

1And then in the year of dread Wokeness the third, it came to pass in the Land of Dis, where Walt he begat him his line, 2but upon which in later days lay the rule of dark descendants not fit to ...
Stakeholder Capitalism: Neither Capitalism Nor For Stakeholders

Stakeholder Capitalism: Neither Capitalism Nor For Stakeholders

Long ago Voltaire noted that the Holy Roman Empire, decaying into ruin in the middle of Europe, was neither Holy nor Roman, nor an Empire. Most of my generation ran across the line, if they did, in a Cawfee Tawk skit on Saturday ...
SEC

The SEC’s Climate-Disclosure Proposal Politicizes Corporate Oversight

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a new rule, one that would require companies to spend vast sums to collect and report information about their carbon and related emissions and their plans to move toward making no emissions that the SEC ...

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