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Another state Constitutional Officer calls out the ESG industry - Part 2
John Murante is Nebraska's State Treasurer, and talks about how politicized investing hurts farmers, empowers tyrants, and functions as a kind of secular religion.
Last year, markets registered huge no-confidence vote on elites
Looking in review, we can see that 2023 was a gigantic vote of no-confidence in the economic direction of our country.
How Child Tax Credit expansion will hurt children
Who could oppose giving more to poor children? That would be like opposing the rescue of drowning puppies ... it changes the incentives for labor supply and capital, and these changes are larger than the effects on household consumption
Another state Constitutional Officer calls out the ESG industry
John Murante is Nebraska's State Treasurer, and talks about how politicized investing hurts farmers, empowers tyrants, and functions as a kind of secular religion.
Why markets know more than experts, and what they expect
Markets don't plunge over a long period of time without a reason. This year has been a terrible one for investors and since we're all investors one way or another, that's been bad for us all.
How the Christ child rescued the world from poverty
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Microsoft refuses to consider downside of reverse discrimination policies
A conservative investment fund successfully proposed a resolution which asked Microsoft to produce a report on the consequences of the company's diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies which includes not positive but also negative ones.
Triggering a recession is not the way to fight inflation
It's important to remember that the Fed holds to a distorted form of economic philosophy which wrongly thinks there is a trade-off between inflation and recession.
Microsoft dodges abortion question at annual meeting, laments worker shortage the next day
The reality is that companies ... have been able to avoid inconvenient questions by summarizing shareholder questions in ways that make it easy to pivot away from their content, and towards topics consistent with their CEO's public relations goals.
How Christianity and capitalism lifted South Korea out of centuries of poverty
The two Koreas that emerged from the disaster of war offer a case study in what causes economic development, that is, poverty reduction.
Pro-recession Fed shows cruelty of anti-Biblical economics
Why are markets acting as though the U.S. is about to enter another recession? ... Because inflation remains stubbornly high and that reflects badly on the people who caused that to happen.
DEI, ESG, CSR: the "alphabet soup of extortion” - Part 2
Andy Olviastro makes the case that the left agenda in corporate boardrooms has gotten overextended and is collapsing in the face of public backlash.
Railroad strike shows unions violate Biblical principles
With their threat to strike, railroad unions are holding a gun to the heads of American consumers
Markets losing confidence in 'expert' ability to end inflation
The reason that the Bible emphasizes currency which is based on some fixed unit of measurement is that it is realistic about human nature.
DEI, ESG, CSR: the "alphabet soup of extortion”
Andy Olviastro makes the case that the left agenda in corporate boardrooms has gotten overextended and is collapsing in the face of public backlash.
