Efforts to impose environmental, social and governance scores upon all sectors of the U.S. financial system, dismantling our free market economy in favor of “stakeholder capitalism,” continue to escalate. Fortunately, substantial efforts to combat the rise of global fascism — which is what would ultimately result from ESG’s all-encompassing societal […]
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican state lawmakers recently took a major step toward fighting back against woke corporations parroting Biden’s leftist agenda. According to a press release by DeSantis’ office, his proposed legislation, will target environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards. It’s a move that will, if successful, go […]
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics are part of a controversial social credit scoring system designed to help corporations, banks, and even some governments evaluate businesses and individuals. Unlike other tools used to measure the performance of a business, ESG systems focus on many non-financial factors, such as a company’s […]
Today, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) divesting in fossil fuels is all the rage on Wall Street. Both President Biden and the United Nations support allowing banks and investment giants to collude to reshape economies and our energy infrastructure. A group supported and promoted by the United Nations, the Principals […]
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics are a kind of social credit system designed to coerce businesses—and, by extension, individuals and all of society—to transform their practices. Through a carrot-and-stick approach, investors and banks (and soon governments) use ESG to push businesses to change how they function, regardless of what […]
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill backing the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) push to craft new rules requiring more comprehensive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures. H.R. 1187, the Corporate Governance Improvement and Investor Protection Act, would authorize the SEC to issue rules within two years requiring […]
Over the past decade, many of the largest corporations in the United States have adopted overtly political causes, including positions on controversial social issues. In most cases, these corporate policies have favored left-wing ideological positions. For example, in 2021 , massive companies such as American Airlines, Dell, and AT&T openly […]
Jack McPherrin is the research editor and a research fellow at The Heartland Institute. He also serves as the managing editor at StoppingSocialism.com. As research editor, Jack sources, manages, and edits all Heartland research publications, and he regularly contributes op-eds for publication at various media outlets, including The Epoch Times, […]
Republican attorneys general are criticizing the U.S. Treasury Department’s recent implementation of “Principles for Net-Zero Financing & Investment,” labeling it as part of the green agenda and a potential legal concern. The attorneys general are probing net-zero alliances in key economic sectors like asset management, banking, insurance, and financial services […]
A recent study by Bloomberg revealed a striking statistic: 94 percent of new corporate jobs are being filled by non-white employees. This trend emerged following the death of George Floyd in 2021. As quoted by Bloomberg, “After Floyd’s murder, companies adopted several practices to help hire and retain underrepresented workers, […]
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has publicly criticized major investment firms as part of his campaign against the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) framework. Ramaswamy specifically referred to BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, commonly known as the “Big Three,” stating they represent “arguably the most powerful cartel in human history.” […]
I’ve been watching and listening to Glenn Beck, a radio hall-of-famer, renowned author, and the founder of the Blaze Media, for many years. I’m sure he’ll be unhappy to hear me say this, but when I first started watching him, I was still in high school. (Sorry, to make you […]
President Joe Biden recently issued his first veto since taking office on Jan. 20, 2021. Biden rejected a bipartisan bill that would have required investment fund managers to take politics out of their investment decisions and to stay focused on providing the best return to their clients as much as […]
The 2024 presidential race gets more exciting each day. Now 37-year-old entrepreneur businessman Vivek Ramaswamy has entered the race as the newest Republican candidate. Whether this political novice has a chance at winning the highest elective office in the land remains to be seen. But for sure he has something […]
With abundance, anything is possible; with scarcity nothing is certain. And what the world is facing right now is an abundance of scarcity. From climate change edicts to purposefully limiting housing supplies to cordoning off the public square from the free exchange of ideas to food shortages and/or diet modifications […]
Unless you can get fired for asking it, a rather common question today is exactly what has happened in the past few years to bring society to the point that, well, you can get fired for asking a question? In other words, how did we from zero to woke in […]
Is charity still charity when it is performed for uncharitable reasons? Looking beyond the “aw, neat, what a great person” façade of “effective altruism,” (see here, with a grain of salt) one clearly finds a level of narcissistic cynicism and a will to the permanent power that financial immortality affords […]
As thousands of dignitaries, business tycoons, pseudo-celebrities, politicians, and so-called elites gather in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Annual Meeting so they can finally “master the future,” millions of Americans have much more pressing issues on their minds. For instance, while the eggheads in Davos rant and […]
World Economic Forum (WEF) Chairman Klaus Schwab, who has run the organization since its foundation in the early 1970s, may be the target of a mutiny. According to The Guardian, a group of current and former WEF members contacted them, saying “Schwab was a law unto himself and had surrounded himself with […]
Suffice to say, it has not been a banner year for BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who runs the world’s largest money management firm with more than $8 trillion in total assets. First, there is the bad economic news: BlackRock’s stock price has declined by more than 20 percent, which means […]
President Joe Biden’s going after 401(k) retirement accounts, risking millions of workers’ comfortable retirements. If you put money into a 401(k), beware. Until now, the law always required fund managers entrusted with your savings to invest the money where it’s expected to get the top return for you. Period. But […]
While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is engaging in a brutal crackdown of protestors decrying the CCP’s “Zero Covid policy,” World Economic Forum President Klaus Schwab appeared on Chinese state television to tell the world that China is actually “a role model for many countries.” Schwab, the foremost proponent of […]
ESG: Key Terms and Issues “The world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be […]
American Institute of Economic Research distinguished fellow Samuel Gregg recently penned an excellent article on the dangers of woke capitalism, the transition from shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism, and fascistic corporatism. Though many consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) systems to be emblematic of a wide-scale effort to socialize the […]
President Biden’s reckless, unfounded, and hypocritical declaration that the majority of the Republican Party are “semi-fascists” leaves me wondering whether he understands what fascism entails. It would behoove Biden to cease making these assertions, considering his regime embodies fascism to a greater extent than any administration in living memory; he certainly looked the […]
While speaking at the International Energy Agency’s Global Clean Energy Action Forum, U.S. Special Presidential Climate Envoy John Kerry told the world the truth about the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). According to Kerry, ” I’m not sure how much it has to do with inflation, but that’s okay.” Actually, no, […]
The all-knowing elites in Australia have determined that their country is lagging behind other developed countries when it comes to transitioning from internal combustion vehicles to electric vehicles (EV). So, they did what central planners love to do: They announced a “National Strategy for Electric Vehicles.” Per the document, “A […]
As socialist policies, leaders, and ideas continue to proliferate exponentially in the United States, including an increasingly concerning espousal of socialist objectives by corporate America, it is important to understand socialism’s relationship to fascism. Despite constant assertions coming from the progressive left that fascism is equivalent to conservatism, it is […]
On August 4, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 18 other attorneys general issued a scathing letter to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, warning that they “will not idly stand for our pensioners’ retirements to be sacrificed for BlackRock’s climate agenda.” According to the letter, “Based on the facts currently available to […]
Every once in a while, even socialists stumble upon the truth. Such was the case when Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a self-avowed socialist who actually honeymooned in the Soviet Union, called out the World Economic Forum’s latest global summit in swanky Davos, Switzerland. As Sanders recently tweeted: “The oligarchs in […]
Never underestimate the left’s uncanny ability to use a crisis to usher in massive political changes. As Rahm Emanuel famously said, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Emanuel […]
For many years, socialists in the United States have attempted to use the “existential” threat of climate change as a Trojan horse to fundamentally transform the U.S. economy from a dynamic, free-market system to a centralized, redistributionist structure. For example, in 2018, self-avowed socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. […]
The foundation of the American way of life is freedom from tyranny, which can only exist in a nation that defends the rights, powers, and property of individuals and families. Over the past two centuries, the greatest threats to liberty have come from governments, both foreign and domestic. And from […]
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This year, Jan. 6 will be commemorated with all the ballyhoo and rigamarole Democrats and their media allies can muster. CNN plans an entire special around the anniversary, titled “Live from the Capitol: January 6th, One Year Later”; the show will feature the “heroes who protected our democracy in the […]
In June 2020, the World Economic Forum — working alongside officials from large corporations, banks, financial institutions and activist groups — launched a far-reaching initiative that aims to push the “reset” button on the global economy. They ominously called it the “Great Reset,” and since its creation, it has received […]
The Great Reset movement poses a significant threat to individual liberty, and, unfortunately, it seems like there are Great Reset developments occurring nearly every week.
The “Great Reset” is a far-left movement meant to push the “reset” button on the global economy. It is supported by countless leaders at many of the world’s most influential international institutions, corporations, and banks, including the World Economic Forum, United Nations, International Monetary Fund, Bank of America, and Microsoft. […]
This week, on the basis of whole-cloth lies, major corporations went to political war with the state of Georgia. The lies at issue revolved around Georgia’s new voter law, characterized by both Stacey Abrams and President Joe Biden as a new form of Jim Crow. What do these dastardly new […]
In June 2020, elites from around the world gathered to announce the launch of a plan to “reset” the entire global economy, a proposal they ominously named the “Great Reset.” Among the many world leaders and powerful institutions that pledged their support for the Great Reset at the June meeting […]
As many of you know who have been following closely my work on the “Great Reset” movement, this stunning proposal to usher in a completely new global economic system has not received nearly enough attention from the mainstream press. A small group of prominent writers, reporters, and commentators have been, […]
The “Great Reset” is a radical movement to push the “reset” button on the global economy. Its backers include numerous heads of state, corporate leaders, activists, union bosses, the United Nations, and leaders at powerful nonprofit organizations. The following list of quotes (which will eventually expand well beyond 30) features […]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) recently said, “We hold China as a potential trading partner, as a country that has pulled tens of millions of people out of poverty in a short period of time, and as a country growing into a respectable nation amongst other nations … I deeply believe […]
For the past few decades, the Communist Party of China has maintained its control partially because it has become the world’s manufacturing base. However, because the Chinese Communist Party has severely mishandled, lied about, and covered-up almost everything related to the outbreak of one of the worst pandemics in recent […]