Tag: ESG

In the United States ESG Economics Don’t Add Up

September 19, 2022
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Commentary  In America, any and all discussion around the environment has turned into political fodder, and one of the latest maneuvers by unelected elites is an attempt to roll out an uncompromised ESG investment monitoring policy. What Is ESG? ESG investing centers around investing in companies that score high in the following tenants: the environment;…

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

September 19, 2022
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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…

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[Premiering 10:30 AM ET] ESG Is a Socialist Plot, Disguised as the Free Market: Andy Puzder

September 16, 2022
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The ESG movement in the investment world is forcing companies to adopt socialist policies as a way to stay in business, according to Andy Puzder, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and author of “The Capitalist Comeback.” We speak with Andy Puzder about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and how this has been working…

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[Premiering 9/16, 10:30 AM ET] ESG Is a Socialist Plot, Disguised as the Free Market: Andy Pudzer

September 15, 2022
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The ESG movement in the investment world is forcing companies to adopt socialist policies as a way to stay in business, according to Andy Pudzer, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and author of “The Capitalist Comeback.” We speak with Andy Pudzer about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and how this has been working…

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‘E’ in ESG Is a Trojan Horse for Radical Social Ideologies: W. Virginia’s Treasurer

September 13, 2022
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West Virginia’s status as a coal-producing state has pitted it against the “E” in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement. Yet, the “S” and “G” may cause problems too, according to West Virginia Treasurer Riley Moore. Moore spoke with EpochTV’s Jan Jekielek on Sept. 12 at the National Conservatism Conference (NatCon) in greater Miami….

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Wall Street Should Be Honest About the ‘G’ in ESG Investing

September 13, 2022
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Commentary Note: This is the third of a three part series on ESG—environmental, social, and governance—investing.  Two previous columns addressed the environmental and social elements of ESG investing. Here, we discusses the last element, corporate governance. In this third discussion of ESG investing, we see how governance—as with “social”—arises not from what it was intended…

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At NatCon, a Populist–Libertarian Clash on ESG Investment

September 12, 2022
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It’s no surprise that the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment movement was a topic at the third National Conservatism Conference in greater Miami. Experts on a Sept. 11 ESG panel wondered aloud whether the letters actually stand for “evil, stupidity, and grift.” “It’s probably all three, by the way,” said Justin Danhof of Strive…

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When Big Money Serves ‘Woke’ Government

September 9, 2022
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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…

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‘Get Thee Behind Me, ESG’: Biblical Investors Disavow ESG

September 2, 2022
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The embattled environmental, social, and governance (ESG) movement has another new foe: Inspire Investing, a Christian financial firm that renounced the term in an Aug. 18 blog post from CEO Robert Netzly. “The hard left wants to say that ESG can only mean their view, in typical cultural Marxist fashion,” Netzly told The Epoch Times…

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