Google’s about to make some changes to the way you share Google Drive files. The search giant has announced a new policy that will restrict access to files violating its policies, and prevent them from being shared in the process.
Corporate America’s ‘Environment, Social, Governance’ issues to face scrutiny. Wall Street’s top cop Gary Gensler wants to charge companies who aren’t woke enough with securities fraud. FOX Business has learned that the Securities and Exchange Commission is launching a series of inquiries into whether corporations make proper disclosures involving so-called Environment, Social, Governance issues, known by the short-hand ESG.
On this episode of We the People, Stephen Soukup, author of The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business discusses the left’s gradual takeover of corporate America and why the free market hasn’t been able to prevent it, the dangerous impact of shareholder activism, and efforts to push back on it.
Former CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder, while discussing funds that focus on “profits not politics,” argued on FOX Business’ “Mornings with Maria” that corporate America is pushing their “radical” agenda on investors without them knowing it.
2ndVote Advisers Co-Founder & CEO Dan Grant joined Sean Spicer & Lyndsay Keith on Newsmax to talk about the commonsense notion that companies focused on profits will produce better returns for their investors than companies focused on a leftist political agenda.
Our funds choose firms that don’t let politics distract from their mission of serving shareholders. Milton Friedman argued that a corporate executive’s responsibility is to maximize profits while conforming to the basic rules of society, as embodied in law and “ethical custom.” American corporations donated $21 billion to charity in 2019, but the growing “stakeholder capitalism” movement is using the ethical-custom concept to impose a progressive agenda on American businesses. It will have negative implications for investor returns.
In his new book “The Dictatorship of Woke Capital,” Steve Soukup explores the rise of progressivism as a cultural force and explains why corporations increasingly are taking sides in politics. How did corporate America, long considered one of the most conservative American institutions, become a lead protagonist in a culture war over all manner of progressive activism?
The National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project publishes the “Investor Value Voter Guide,” arming conservative shareholders and shareholders of faith with the tool they need to vote their proxies consistent with their values.
Nasdaq’s proposal before the SEC to require companies listed on its exchange to appoint directors based on their genders and ethnicity rather than qualifications is “racist and sexist,” according to Heritage Foundation’s Mike Gonzalez and David R. Burton.
Kevin Freeman, host of Economic War Room, explains how the left is using your money against you and how ESG could precipitate the next stock market bubble.
In this article for Townhall, Timothy Daughtry asserts that Corporate America is losing sight of its true objective – return on investment – in emphasizing ESG. He cites a letter from the Shareholder Equity Alliance that sums the problem up well: “[Most ESG programs] are sponsored by activist groups… to achieve social and cultural changes that are entirely unmoored from the interests of corporate shareholders.
Justin Danhof, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project, explains why “Corporate Social Responsibility” programs that advance a radical agenda are dangerous and how corporations can be pushed “Back to Neutral” in this three-part interview with the Capital Research Center.
In this Capital Research Center video, Justin Danhof, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project, explains how the left has turned Corporate America into a powerful ally for its agenda.
Jeremy Tedesco, senior counsel and senior vice president of communications for the Alliance Defending Freedom urges corporations such as Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter that rely on SPLC to help them police “hate speech” to sever their ties with the group before they are swept into expensive litigation.
