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Anti-ESG Report Card: 2024 Presidential Candidates
Opinion -In an attempt to secure vast amounts of wealth and influence over society, corporations, bankers, and investors, working closely with key government officials, have launched a unified effort to impose environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards on most of the industrialized global economy. (ESG standards are also often referred to as “sustainable investment” or “stakeholder […] -
Heartland Institute Releases Anti-ESG Scores for 2024 Presidential Candidates
Opinion -Press Release -It is not an exaggeration to say that ESG represents one of the greatest threats to individual freedoms, democratic institutions, and macroeconomic stability facing us today. -
Anti-Intellectual Property? The Socialists-Communists Are
Opinion -My long time joke is: What’s the difference between Socialism and Communism? About five years. -
Video: Marching Toward a Technological Tyranny – In The Tank #416
Opinion -What does liberty look like in a world of AI, data collection, social credit scores, self-driving cars, CBDCs, and other developing technologies? -
Has ESG Been Cast into the Dustbin of History?
Opinion -According to recent reports from BlackRock and Vanguard, the two investment giants are rejecting ESG shareholder proposals on a massive scale. -
VIDEO: Climate Action ‘Requires Global Cooperation (China)’ – In The Tank #413
Opinion -Climate Czar John Kerry recently discussed the importance of China's cooperation in the fight against climate change. Kerry is not wrong, but how far is the U.S. willing to go in order to keep China happy? -
Video: The Future of ESG – In The Tank #408
Opinion -Hare is emerging technology primed to supercharge ESG, and how it may be weaponized against different industries? -
VIDEO: Population Control: History Of This Anti-Human Agenda – In The Tank #407
Opinion -The authoritarian left has a long history of promoting an anti-human agenda. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Praise New Anti-ESG Law in Florida
Opinion -Press Release -Bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis mirrors recommendations for states in just-released Heartland Institute report. -
Press Release: ESG Is a Threat to Individual Liberty, Free Markets, and the U.S. Economy
Opinion -Press Release -Heartland Institute research explores how ESG is being implemented, and why it must be stopped. -
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Scores: A Threat to Individual Liberty, Free Markets, and the U.S. Economy
Publication -Policy Studies, Policy Briefs -ESG has become one of the gravest threats facing the free societies of the world today. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Biden Veto of Anti-ESG Bill
Opinion -Press Release -“President Biden is putting politics and his radical ideology above the interests of working Americans and their families.” -
The Road to Totalitarianism: Lessons From Russia
Publication -Policy Studies -Vladimir Putin and totalitarianism are old friends. The embattled Russian president began his career as a KGB operative in 1975, spending the next 16 years propagating total authoritarian control over his country until the Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991.[1] Years after his country’s precipitous dissolution, Putin remarked in a 1996 interview, “However sad and […] -
Research & Commentary: Anti-ESG Bill in Nebraska Will Ensure Cornhusker State Pension Funds Invested Appropriately
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Legislation in the Nebraska Legislature would combat environmental, social and governance (ESG) scoring systems and ensure state pension funds are invested solely to achieve the maximum return on investment for pensioners, rather than advancing social or political causes that may likely lead to lower returns and / or underperformance. ESG scores are essentially a risk […] -
Research & Commentary: Anti-ESG Bill in Indiana Will Ensure Hoosier State Pension Funds Invested Appropriately
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Legislation in the Indiana House of Representatives would combat environmental, social and governance (ESG) scoring systems and ensure state pension funds are invested solely to achieve the maximum return on investment for pensioners, rather than advancing social or political causes that may likely lead to lower returns and / or underperformance. ESG scores are essentially […] -
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Scores A Basic Primer
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores are the chief mechanism by which a cabal of ideologically aligned influential interests working through unelected supranational organizations are attempting to “reset” the global financial system to their advantage. -
PRESS RELEASE: Socialist Candidates Won More Than 90% of Their Races in 2022 Midterm Election
Opinion -Press Release -Far-left progressive and socialist candidates continue to gain significant traction at both the federal and state levels of government -
An Analysis of Socialist Candidates in the 2022 Midterm Election
Publication -Policy Studies -Far-left progressive and socialist candidates continue to gain significant traction at both the federal and state levels of government. -
ESG Social Credit Scores and the Threats They Pose to Freedom
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -The idea that a pseudo-secret cabal of global powerbrokers are using their combined wealth and influence to subvert the will of free individuals, consolidate their own power, and enrich themselves in the process might sound like a conspiracy theory to some. -
The Centenary of Ludwig von Mises’s Critique of Socialism
Opinion -Editorial -The free market harmonizes the peaceful pursuits of each individual with the purposes and activities of all others. -
Understanding Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Metrics: A Basic Primer
Publication -Policy Briefs -Environment, social, and governance scores are theoretically supposed to incentivize “responsible investing” by “screening out” companies that do not possess high ESG scores while favorably rating those companies and funds that make positive contributions to ESG’s three overarching categories. A company’s ESG score has become a primary component of its risk profile. -
Conference Warns of Climate Socialism Agenda
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #415 -
Made in France: Biden’s Fiscal and Regulatory Socialism
Opinion -Editorial -Welcome to the world of government subsidies, tax breaks and other such incentives, for politicians to “nudge” you in the directions they want you to go.