Tag: Free Enterprise Project Commentaries

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 ...
'Equity'-Based Discrimination At a Retailer Near You

‘Equity’-Based Discrimination At a Retailer Near You

Corporate America’s panicked embrace of “equity” in the summer of 2020 isn’t going to end well for anyone, most particularly the companies that have embraced it the hardest. This shouldn’t be a surprise. After all, what “equity” means – according to its ...
Why Is American Express Blocking An Audit Of Its Race-Based Staff Training?

Why Is American Express Blocking An Audit Of Its Race-Based Staff Training?

American Express pledged a whopping $1 billion to advance “social justice,” yet the company is trying to hide some of those supposed racial justice efforts from the light of day. Recently, the company’s top lawyer petitioned the federal government seeking its permission ...
Woke CEOs: Power for Them, Subservience for You

Woke CEOs: Power for Them, Subservience for You

The ever-growing cadre of woke CEOs really are true believers. Not — most of them — in the racially charged socialist agenda that animates wokeness, though. Rather, their fidelity is to a future in which they star on the global ...
Biden Economic Plan: Incompetence Or Malignancy?

Biden Economic Plan: Incompetence Or Malignancy?

Well, yes. I know. As the folks over at Instapundit put it: embrace the healing power of “and.” Of course they’re incompetent. The fellah from Dela is entirely non compos. Kamala Harris appears to have proven herself unqualified for a ...
Gary Gensler’s Politicized, Biased & Rigged SEC

Gary Gensler’s Politicized, Biased & Rigged SEC

Gary Gensler, the relatively new chairman of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), is reputedly a thrustingly ambitious political climber who ultimately has his eyes on Treasury, and so is using the SEC spot to audition for party leaders. He’s ...
Perhaps A ‘70s Redux Is Our Best Hope

Perhaps A ‘70s Redux Is Our Best Hope

Things really are starting to look grim. Not too long ago, we had worried that the “Biden” Administration would be a Carter reprise. Now we can only hope. The obvious sign that we’re returning to the age of bellbottoms and ...
Corporate Political Stances Rarely Lift Returns of the Owners

Corporate Political Stances Rarely Lift Returns of the Owners

The question of what to do about the hard-left turn taken by so many of the country’s biggest corporations has bedeviled the center right in recent years. What is often termed “Conservative, Inc.,” or the beltway-brand of conservative opinion makers ...