Tag: BlackRock

PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: ESG Could ‘Become Part of Our Credit Scores’: W.Va. State Treasurer Riley Moore on Ending Contracts With Companies Adopting ESG

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ESG Could ‘Become Part of Our Credit Scores’: W.Va. State Treasurer Riley Moore on Ending Contracts With Companies Adopting ESG

From Our Sponsor: Why Now Is the Time to Buy Gold & Silver with Goldco. Call 855-973-0470 for your FREE Wealth Protection Kit Today! “So, there’s a big game kind of going on here, but they’re making a killing off of these ESG products. And why are they able to do that? Well, they’re charging…


US Giant BlackRock Buys New Zealand ‘Virtual Power Plant’ for $60 Million

U.S. investment giant BlackRock will buy New Zealand rooftop solar company solarZero, for NZ$100 million (US$60 million) as part of its wider clean energy push into the Asia-Pacific region. Founded in 2008, solarZero says it has built the region’s largest “virtual power plant” and installed systems on over 9,000 homes. The company’s business model is…


ESG Is Simply a Socialist Plot by a Group of ‘Corporate Elites,’ Disguised as Free Market: Andy Puzder

Many leftist progressive groups are pushing forward environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards on companies and investments, claiming that such standards will benefit society. Andy Puzder, a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation and author of “The Capitalist Comeback,” warns that ESG is simply socialist ideologies being falsely presented as the free market. In an…



Former Hollywood Executive Gets 6 Years Prison for Defrauding BlackRock Fund

NEW YORK—The former head of a Hollywood movie distributor whose films have starred actors such as Halle Berry and Matthew McConaughey was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison after he pleaded guilty to defrauding a BlackRock Inc investment fund. William Sadleir, who ran Aviron Pictures LLC, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul…


When Big Money Serves ‘Woke’ Government

Commentary One of the biggest laughs in the 1977 Tony-winning Broadway musical Annie was when the President and Mrs. Roosevelt accept tycoon Daddy Warbucks’s invitation to Christmas Eve dinner, and Warbucks, having not thought they would, barks, “Call Al Smith and find out what Democrats eat.” While it’s true that during the Great Depression the…


LIVE NOW: Biden to Cancel Student Debt for Millions; Harvard Could Lose ‘Richest School’ Status | NTD Business

President Biden announces student loan cancellations. A former White House economist tells us it could worsen inflation. Harvard is facing competition for the status of “richest university.” Which university might overtake it, and why? Texas bans some Wall Street giants for cutting ties with the fossil fuel sector. The DOT is warning some SUV owners…


Biden to Cancel Student Debt for Millions; Harvard Could Lose ‘Richest School’ Status | NTD Business

President Joe Biden announces student loan cancellations. A former White House economist says it could worsen inflation. Harvard is facing competition for the status of “richest university.” Which university might overtake it, and why? Texas bans some Wall Street giants for cutting ties with the fossil fuel sector. The Department of Transportation is warning some…


Resistance Mounts Against ESG

News Analysis Actions taken to counter the ESG movement are broadening as the biggest money managers in the world are being taken to task for pushing their political and ideological stances on companies. Some observers of the progressive investment phenomenon see it as a threat to democracy and national security and a violation of capitalism….