News Analysis Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed in spectacular and sudden fashion on March 10, becoming the second largest bank to do so in our nation’s history and triggering panic in our banking system in the process. Although virtually everyone knows of SVB’s failure, not everyone understands exactly why Silicon Valley Bank failed. Many have…
Why the Banking Crisis May Just Be Beginning
March 30, 2023
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The Attack of the Subversive Elites
Commentary It is tempting, as Naomi Wolf has done recently, to ascribe the breakdown of Western civilization to the debasing of “Judeo-Christian” ethics and the reemergence of malignant supernatural forces. Witnessing the many assaults on the infrastructure and social order of the United States of late, I wouldn’t rule out metaphysical causality either. But to blame…
Mastering the Future: The Megalomaniacal Ambitions of the WEF
January 27, 2023
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Commentary The fifty-third annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) brought together fifty-two world leaders, seventeen hundred corporate executives, sundry artists, and other personalities to address “Cooperation in a Fragmented World.” Fragmentation is the nemesis of the WEF and its United Nations (U.N.) and corporate partners. “Fragmentation” means that segments of the world population…
Texas Issues Subpoena to BlackRock for Pushing ESG Agenda
December 8, 2022
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The Texas legislature has subpoenaed investment firm BlackRock, together with its subsidiaries and affiliate entities in the state, for documents related to the institution’s promotion of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies. The subpoena was issued by the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs last month and asks the sergeant-at-arms for the committee or any…
Tory MP Drafts Bill Proposing to Hold Corporate Executives Accountable for ‘Activist Statements’
A Conservative MP is drafting a bill that proposes to hold officers and directors of large publicly traded companies accountable to shareholders whenever they make “activist statements” that have nothing to do with their line of business. Tom Kmiec, who represents the riding of Calgary Shepard, says the bill would ensure that the interests of…
The Agenda Behind Climate Change Catastrophism
August 9, 2022
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Commentary Democrats on Capitol Hill are pressuring the Biden administration to declare a climate emergency, voicing their doomsday predictions that without immediate action to curb and ultimately end our dependence on fossil fuels, “the planet” and, by implication, every living creature that inhabits it, will die. “If we don’t really begin to lower emissions, this…
US Pension Savings Are Funding Globalist Ambitions: Andy Puzder
August 3, 2022
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Andy Puzder is the former CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of Hardee’s and Carls Jr. He’s now the chairman of 2nd Vote Advisers, an investment fund that rejects investment criteria that place ideological, social, or political goals ahead of its investors’ financial interests. Puzder co-authored the book titled “Job Creation: How It Really…
Startup Backed By Billionaire Investors Crusades Against Climate Investing, ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’
A few years ago, it would have been hard to imagine an activist hedge fund gaining three board seats at America’s largest oil and gas company. A fledgling fund called Engine No. 1 with just 0.02 percent ownership in ExxonMobil, voted out three board members at the oil giant in 2021, scoring a victory for…
The Big Lie of Woke Capitalism
July 5, 2022
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Commentary Apparently, the “woke left” in America is a big fan of free market capitalism and investing. At least, that’s what Slate’s Andrew Petillon would have us all believe in his recent article, “The Republican War on ‘Woke Capitalism’ Is Really Just a War on Capitalism.” That is nothing more—and nothing less—than a well-constructed lie….
‘I’m Not Woke,’ Says JP Morgan CEO Defending ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’
June 2, 2022
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JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon claimed in an interview at a conference on Wednesday that his push toward “stakeholder capitalism” is being misconstrued as being “woke,” and that he remains “a red-blooded free-market capitalist.” “I’m not woke. And I think people are mistaking the stakeholder capitalism thing for being woke,” Dimon told a conference organized…
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