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Federalist Society and SEC’s Roisman on Future of ESG, Corporate Governance

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Federalist Society and SEC’s Roisman on Future of ESG, Corporate Governance

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/26/2021

Yesterday the Federalist Society held an excellent virtual event on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) theory, addressing “the divergent…

Capitalism

CEOs Join Davos Wonks to Launch New Corporate ESG Disclosures

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CEOs Join Davos Wonks to Launch New Corporate ESG Disclosures

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 01/29/2021

Axios’ “cheerful iconoclast” Felix Salmon reported earlier this week on an agreement by dozens of major corporations to support a new system of…

Capitalism

BlackRock’s Larry Fink: Fight COVID with Climate Activism

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BlackRock’s Larry Fink: Fight COVID with Climate Activism

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 01/27/2021

Larry Fink, CEO of mega asset management firm BlackRock, has released his annual pair of letters—one to the CEOs of companies that BlackRock holds…

Capitalism

Gensler Agenda at SEC Bears Close Watching

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Gensler Agenda at SEC Bears Close Watching

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 01/22/2021

President Biden has chosen former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Gary Gensler as his nominee to be chair of the Securities and Exchange…

Capitalism

Biden Team Expected to Take Hatchet to Pension Protection Rule

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Biden Team Expected to Take Hatchet to Pension Protection Rule

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 12/01/2020

The Department of Labor, under the leadership of Secretary Eugene Scalia, implemented an important (though widely misunderstood) rule this year, regarding how federally regulated pension…

Capitalism

Retro Review: The Communist Manifesto (1848)

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Retro Review: The Communist Manifesto (1848)

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 11/25/2020

The manifesto of the Communist party, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1847 and first published the next year, has a legendary pair…

Capitalism

Millennials, Gen Z Optimistic about Hard Work Leading to Prosperity

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Millennials, Gen Z Optimistic about Hard Work Leading to Prosperity

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 11/20/2020

The Walton Family Foundation released an interesting survey recently that found that Generation Z (ages 13–23) and Millennial (ages 24–39) Americans are more optimistic…

Capitalism

High CEO Pay Isn’t Making Anyone Poor

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High CEO Pay Isn’t Making Anyone Poor

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 11/06/2020

While most American are still following the final vote counts in the 2020 presidential election, many lower-profile, but still important, issues have been decided at…

Capitalism

Boeing Declines to Blackmail Washington Taxpayers, Threatened by Governor in Return

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Boeing Declines to Blackmail Washington Taxpayers, Threatened by Governor in Return

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 10/23/2020

Boeing recently announced plans to consolidate all production of its 787 Dreamliner jet, moving some existing work from the company’s traditional home in Washington…

Capitalism

Pension Managers Must Focus on Retiree Security, Not Politics

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Pension Managers Must Focus on Retiree Security, Not Politics

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 10/06/2020

A new proposed rule from the Department of Labor on pension funds would clarify the responsibilities of pension fund fiduciaries covered under the Employee Retirement…

Labor and Employment

CEI Event with Hester Peirce and Paul Atkins: ESG, Crypto, and other SEC Hot Topics

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CEI Event with Hester Peirce and Paul Atkins: ESG, Crypto, and other SEC Hot Topics

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 09/23/2020

Yesterday, in the most recent installment of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s “Repeal for Resilience” event series, CEI President Kent Lassman welcomed Securities and Exchange Commission…

Banking and Finance

Climate Cronyism: Big Businesses Tailor Policy to Benefit Themselves

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Climate Cronyism: Big Businesses Tailor Policy to Benefit Themselves

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 09/23/2020

A shorter version of this post was published as an op-ed in the Washington Examiner last week. The Business Roundtable (BRT), an association of…

Business and Government

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Do We Want Corporations to Be Society’s Moral Referees?

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 09/11/2020

The New York Times is observing the 50th anniversary of Milton Friedman’s famous article “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits”…

Business and Government

Socialism, Nationalism, and Political Control: Iain Murray on The Remnant

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Socialism, Nationalism, and Political Control: Iain Murray on The Remnant

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 09/10/2020

My colleague Iain Murray had a fascinating conversation this week with The Remnant’s Jonah Goldberg about his excellent new book, The Socialist Temptation.

Capitalism

Good Vibes for Sale: The Business of Cultural Innovation

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Good Vibes for Sale: The Business of Cultural Innovation

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 09/09/2020

The current issue of Harvard Business Review has a fascinating article by former business school professor and brand consultant Douglas Holt. He advises…

Capitalism

ESG Mission Creep Could Lead to Serious Legal, Market Risks for Companies

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ESG Mission Creep Could Lead to Serious Legal, Market Risks for Companies

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 09/09/2020

An increasing number of U.S. corporations are signaling their commitment to corporate social responsibility by integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues into their operations…

Capitalism

Good Vibes for Sale: The Business of Cultural Innovation

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Good Vibes for Sale: The Business of Cultural Innovation

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 09/09/2020

The current issue of Harvard Business Review has a fascinating article by former business school professor and brand consultant Douglas Holt. He advises companies looking to innovate successfully…

Capitalism

Demise of ESG Investing Overstated

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Demise of ESG Investing Overstated

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 09/03/2020

The Department of Labor’s recent notice of proposed rulemaking on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in pension fund investments has received a…

Capitalism

Don’t Let Feds Become Investing’s Sheriff of Nottingham

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Don’t Let Feds Become Investing’s Sheriff of Nottingham

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 09/03/2020

Investing company Robinhood and its signature smartphone app have taken off in popularity in the last several months. According to Bloomberg, Robinhood has “catapulted ahead…

Banking and Finance

Demise of ESG Investing Overstated

Blog

Demise of ESG Investing Overstated

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 08/24/2020

The Department of Labor’s recent notice of proposed rulemaking on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in pension fund investments has received a lot of…

Capitalism

Cheers to Department of Labor for Protecting Retiree Investments

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Cheers to Department of Labor for Protecting Retiree Investments

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 07/29/2020

At the end of last month the Department of Labor published a new notice of proposed rulemaking on the investment choices that private pension fund…

Business and Government

Wealthy Millennials Not So Concerned with “Socially Responsible” Investing

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Wealthy Millennials Not So Concerned with “Socially Responsible” Investing

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 07/17/2020

In the last few years advocates of corporate social responsibility theory have been assuring everyone who would listen that a new day is dawning for…

Banking and Finance

Secretary Scalia to Pension Funds: Manage for Returns, Not Virtue Signaling

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Secretary Scalia to Pension Funds: Manage for Returns, Not Virtue Signaling

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 06/24/2020

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Labor Secretary Scalia explains the reasoning behind a proposed rule reaffirming that pension funds should focus on providing benefits…

Capitalism

Anti-Corporate Author: Get Over Your Vanity and Just Read “Impeccable” New York Times

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Anti-Corporate Author: Get Over Your Vanity and Just Read “Impeccable” New York Times

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 06/10/2020

Are you struggling to stay informed in an Internet landscape full of conflicting sources and analysis? Good news—a New York Times bestselling author (and former…

Capitalism

Value of Employee Benefits in Eye of Beholder

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Value of Employee Benefits in Eye of Beholder

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 06/05/2020

Advocates of “social responsibility” and environmental, social, and governance standards for companies have little interest in their proposed requirements being voluntary, despite frequent protestations to…

Business and Government

“Social Responsibility” Expectations for Business Pivot from Voluntary to Mandatory

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“Social Responsibility” Expectations for Business Pivot from Voluntary to Mandatory

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 06/03/2020

The Financial Times reported that many companies have cut dividends to shareholders because they are struggling with the current economic downturn. But even after we’ve…

Business and Government

There Is No Such Thing as “Safe”

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There Is No Such Thing as “Safe”

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 05/29/2020

Iain Murray has a great essay up at Law & Liberty today on why some groups of Americans are perceiving quarantine policies so differently from…

Business and Government

Lean on Business Leaders to Defend Markets

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Lean on Business Leaders to Defend Markets

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 05/22/2020

One on the main goals of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Advancing Capitalism is for more business leaders to prioritize the defense of the…

Business and Government

Retro Review: Irving Kristol’s “Two Cheers for Capitalism”

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Retro Review: Irving Kristol’s “Two Cheers for Capitalism”

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 05/13/2020

Long before we began debating the wisdom of neoconservative foreign policy, Irving Kristol was writing about domestic economic policy and the future of capitalism. His…

Business and Government

New Profile in Capitalism: Ariel Corporation CEO Karen Wright

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New Profile in Capitalism: Ariel Corporation CEO Karen Wright

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 05/05/2020

Some CEOs seem to have more hours in the day than others. Such is the case of Karen Wright, the head of Ariel Corporation, a…

Capitalism

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  • Michelle Minton
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