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Aug 19, 2022
If carbon emissions are a world-historical crisis, if they threaten the end of modern civilization, and if the only way to respond is to end those emissions, then we...
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Aug 11, 2022
Encouraging reports indicate that the more sensible of the states have finally begun to confront not only the leftist takeover of corporate boards and executive suites, but against...
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Aug 5, 2022
The chickens of wokeness are coming home to roost on the heads of the business leaders who have done so much to unleash this plague upon us.
There’s a better, and less...
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Jul 27, 2022
Larry Fink really has let all of those trips to Davos go to his head.
In what is, so far as I know, the BlackRock CEO’s most recent act of public grandiloquence, he and...
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Jul 21, 2022
Morningstar, the investor-research firm, claims to be “all in for investors,” and that because its founder “thought it was unfair that people didn’t...
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Jul 13, 2022
Despite the transparent prevarications of the most powerful proponents of current ESG, those positions are entirely and deeply partisan. As has been noted on these pages before,...
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Jun 30, 2022
Woke CEOs build traps for themselves, and then fall right into them, with such regularity that even the venerable Wile E. Coyote has begun to look away in...
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Jun 23, 2022
Big news from the United States Supreme Court this week.
No, not that news. Rather, the decision in Carson v. Makin that struck down Blaine Amendments and their progeny as...
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Jun 16, 2022
However badly the one-time pillars of the American news industry misunderstand economics, they cannot escape it. The law of supply and demand, like the gods of the copybook headings,...
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Jun 1, 2022
Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, appears to know that his attempt to run the American economy, and to inflict his personal preferences on society from company headquarters, are at...
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May 26, 2022
And so, after two years of lockdowns required them to do their plotting by Zoom, the self-appointed Masters of the Universe have met again in Davos, Switzerland, presumably in a...
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May 20, 2022
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...
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May 13, 2022
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...
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May 10, 2022
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...
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Apr 26, 2022
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...
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Apr 21, 2022
There has been great hope for civic liberty in the days since Elon Musk made the bid heard round the world (discussion of which is not yet banned on Twitter) to buy that...
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Apr 15, 2022
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...
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Apr 7, 2022
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...
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Mar 31, 2022
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,...
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Mar 24, 2022
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...
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Mar 16, 2022
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...