economy

JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock drop out of UN Climate Action alliance

Three financial giants took a giant step backwards in their commitment to the radical climate change cause this week.

By Kathleen Marquardt |2024-02-23T10:05:33-05:00February 21st, 2024|Comments Off

The dangerous delusion of a global transition to “just electricity”

Eliminating crude oil, before a replacement is in place, would rid the world of planes, airports, ships, medical, social media communications, toilets, and more.

By Ronald Stein |2023-10-02T09:38:26-04:00October 2nd, 2023|Comments Off

Are the Greens overplaying their hand?

The Green movement has a long history of rubbing people the wrong way.

By Craig Rucker |2023-08-18T10:46:18-04:00August 18th, 2023|Comments Off

Climate change policies war on America’s living standards

Out of sight energy prices, impeded travel, wrecked manufacturing, food scarcity, government housing -- what's not to like?

By Peter Murphy |2023-08-31T11:55:43-04:00July 31st, 2023|Comments Off

If it’s not open warfare, it’s collusive lawfare

Environmentalist lawsuits reach new heights of absurdity and threats to American energy.

By Paul Driessen |2023-06-09T16:42:29-04:00June 10th, 2023|Comments Off

The challenge: Replacing the supply chain that supports humanity

Crude oil is USELESS, UNLESS it can be manufactured into usable products, but wind and solar cannot manufacture anything!

By Ronald Stein |2023-05-21T22:25:43-04:00May 22nd, 2023|Comments Off

Where’s the beef?

America and the rest of the world are headed for food shortages if policymakers enact laws based on climate change.

By Peter Murphy |2023-05-16T12:39:01-04:00May 19th, 2023|Comments Off

BlackRock’s Larry Fink and the new post-ESG realism

Swept along by climate-change fervor, an investment manager “can’t make such commitments without reneging on its fiduciary duties."

By Rupert Darwall |2023-03-30T09:58:45-04:00March 30th, 2023|Comments Off

The ESG pushback is on!

The life savings of pensioners, and every one of us engaged in "the pursuit of happiness" in America, are not fair game for left-wing social engineering.

By Craig Rucker |2023-03-17T10:47:27-04:00March 17th, 2023|Comments Off

SVB, ESG, and Biden’s ERISA Rule

One lesson of Silicone Valley Bank’s collapse is the critical importance for business to focus on the essential.

By Rupert Darwall |2023-03-16T10:55:28-04:00March 16th, 2023|Comments Off

Biden Administration throws lobstermen under the bus

The dilemma is how to pretend that it is doing everything it can to protect the critically endangered Right Whale, while at the same time green-lighting massive wind energy industrialization of the ocean waters off the East Coast.

By Collister Johnson |2023-01-31T14:29:20-05:00February 2nd, 2023|Comments Off

Everything that needs electricity is made with oil

Without products from oil, there will be no need for "renewable" electricity.

By Ronald Stein |2023-02-01T11:39:21-05:00February 1st, 2023|Comments Off

Climate hysteria and groupthink from billionaires who want your money to “save the world”

The billionaires at Davos want you to ratchet down your life.

By Peter Murphy |2023-01-26T10:33:27-05:00January 27th, 2023|Comments Off

The cult of Davos

"Davos", the joke goes, "is where billionaires tell millionaires what the middle class thinks."

By Craig Rucker |2023-01-25T00:19:03-05:00January 24th, 2023|Comments Off

2022: The Year ESG Fell to Earth

Although the disintegration of ESG as an investment strategy became unmistakable in 2022, its existence as a political doctrine will continue until it is challenged and defeated.

By Rupert Darwall |2022-12-28T13:20:16-05:00December 31st, 2022|Comments Off