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Research & Commentary: Anti-ESG Bill In South Carolina Will Ensure Palmetto State Pension Funds Invested Appropriately
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Legislation in the South Carolina Senate 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 financial underperformance. ESG scores are essentially a risk assessment mechanism increasingly […] -
AI and ESG: How Artificial Intelligence Is Being Designed to Advance Left-Wing Goals
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -Over the next decade, artificial intelligence (AI), automation powered by AI, and other emerging technologies will play an increasingly larger role in the global economy. The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) estimates “between 400 million and 800 million individuals could be displaced by automation and need to find new jobs by 2030 around the world, based […] -
Stop ESG In Banking: Do States Have the Legal Authority?
Publication -Policy Briefs -Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics are a popular kind of social credit scoring, one that poses a significant threat to individual liberty and free-market economies, both in the United States and abroad. ESG is regularly used by corporations and investors as a tool to impose progressive values and environmental policies on other businesses, governments, […] -
Anti-ESG Report Card: 2024 Presidential Candidates
Publication -ESG standards are designed to create a “great reset of capitalism” and to “revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions.” -
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. -
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: 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? -
Florida: Where ESG goes to die
Opinion -DeSantis signed a landmark bill designed “to protect Floridians from the corporatist environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) movement -- a worldwide effort to inject woke political ideology across the financial sector." -
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.” -
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. -
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Scores
Page -LEGISLATORS: Email [email protected] to contact our team for help. Legislative Policy Tip Sheets ESG: A Simple Breakdown of its Components ESG: The Role of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ESG: The Effects Upon Free Markets ESG: Primary Architects and Implementers ESG: Negative Effects on Food Supply and Agriculture ESG: Central Bank Digital Currencies ESG: The Banking Industry ESG: Financial […] -
ESG: Central Bank Digital Currencies
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -Below is a brief summary of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and how they can be wielded against society to enforce ESG compliance. -
ESG: The Banking Industry
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -The following is a brief summary of how the banking industry has used its coercive market power to weaponize ESG compliance. -
ESG: Financial Discrimination
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -The summary below discusses financial institutions’ discriminatory practices against consumers, and explains proposed solutions to the problem. -
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. -
America is Successfully Pursuing ESG = Extreme Shortages Guaranteed
Opinion -Editorial -Everything that needs electricity is made with the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil. In an all-electric world, there will be nothing to power without oil. -
ESG: Negative Effects on Food Supply and Agriculture
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -Brief summary of how ESG is being weaponized against farmers, food production, and the agricultural industry as a whole. -
ESG and Markets
Opinion -Editorial -If ESG is a fad driven by America’s out-of-touch radical elites, markets will remedy the excess if ESG is not imposed via regulatory dictate.
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