The hidden costs of anti-woke policies: higher prices and rising inequality under Trump-era tariffs
These tariffs have backfired, hurting everyday people with higher prices while benefiting the wealthy and connected elites.
The hidden costs of anti-woke policies: higher prices and rising inequality under Trump-era tariffs
These tariffs have backfired, hurting everyday people with higher prices while benefiting the wealthy and connected elites.
Wolff Responds: Great Replacement Theory - A Critique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzR8aoDQ8W8
#GreatReplacement #Capitalism #Woke #AntiWoke #WokeCapitalism #Diversity #WokeWashing #Work
Which brings me to #WokeCapitalism. Conservative string-pullers have whipped up their base about the threat of companies embracing social causes. They (erroneously) claim that corporations have progressive values, and that big business is thumbing the scales for causes they despise. The purpose here isn't to sow distrust of capitalism per se. Rather, it's to stampede talk-radio-addled supporters into backing the oligarchy's agenda.
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The far right has even managed to co-opt anti-corporate rhetoric. Culture warriors rail against "#WokeCapitalism," insisting that when big businesses take socially progressive positions, it's just empty "#VirtueSignalling." And you know what? They've got a point. Partially.
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Addendum 6
Investment Firm Cofounded by Vivek Ramaswamy Holds Shares in BlackRock
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2023/09/22/investment-firm-cofounded-by-vivek-ramaswamy-holds-shares-in-blackrock
* tries to be most anti-woke GOP presidential candidate
* sharpest attacks v. big 3 asset management firms: Vanguard; State Street; BlackRock
* his company, Strive Asset Management, manages ETF that incl. BlackRock
https://persagen.com/docs/vivek_ramaswamy.html
https://persagen.com >> search:
"state street"
vanguard
"black rock" OR blackrock
#Ramaswamy #GOP #WokeCapitalism #BlackRock #Vanguard #StateStreet
Ramaswamy’s own conflict of interest in attacking BlackRock shows just how difficult it is for public pension managers to avoid ESG investments if they own any ETFs — as do most pension funds — since they represent the most significant stocks bought and sold on the market every day.
Addendum 5
Vivek Ramaswamy Combining Climate Denialism w. Attack on “Woke Capitalism”
Presidential candidates usually write memoirs before running
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/vivek-ramaswamy-finance-esg-republican-primary-woke-capital-book-climate-denial
* Vivek Ramaswamy’s "Capitalist Punishment: How Wall Street is Using Your Money to Create a Country You Didn’t Vote For" is something different: confused, paranoid attack on “woke capitalism"
#Ramaswamy #GOP #CultureWars #populism #ClimateChange #wokism #WarOnWoke #WokeCapitalism #capitalism #DefundBillionaires
Presidential candidates usually write memoirs before running. Vivek Ramaswamy’s Capitalist Punishment: How Wall Street is Using Your Money to Create a Country You Didn’t Vote For is something different — a confused and paranoid attack on “woke capitalism.
https://www.propublica.org/article/leonard-leo-teneo-videos-documents
"To “confront” …“#wokecapitalism,” Jonathan Bunch, a longtime Leo deputy and now #Teneo board member…brought together a coalition of Teneans “working with…state attorneys general,…financial officers,…legislators, journalists, media executives and best-in-class public affairs professionals” to launch investigations, hold hearings, pull state investment funds and publish op-eds and news stories in response to…#ESG, policies at the corporate level."
Leonard Leo, a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is now the chairman of Teneo Network, a group that aims to influence all aspects of American politics and culture.
Nigel Farage, the man who brought you Brexit, is back with a rabble-rousing cry against “woke capitalism”.
“Far-right parties will keep talking about immigration because it's their core topic, but in order to increase their appeal they need to kind of diversify their issues, what they talk about, and this is where woke capitalism comes in,” said Sofia Vasilopoulou, professor of European politics.
#Europe #WokeCapitalism #FarRight #Populism #Woke #Farage #Brexit
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Addendum
House GOP Joins the War on ESG, Brought to You by Big Oil
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2023/07/14/house-gop-joins-the-war-on-esg-brought-to-you-by-big-oil/https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2023/07/14/house-gop-joins-the-war-on-esg-brought-to-you-by-big-oil
2 House Republicans who kicked off “ESG month” - GOP-led hearings intent on preventing companies f. responding to the climate crisis - have deep financial ties to fossil fuel industry
Republican backlash against ESG investing is part of manufactured crisis around “woke capitalism,” a conservative rallying cry embraced by GOP presidential hopefuls Ron DeSantis & Vivek Ramaswamy
New research reveals that both House Republicans and the witnesses they’ve called to kick off “ESG month”—a series of GOP-led hearings in July intent on preventing companies from responding to the climate crisis—have deep financial ties to the fossil fuel industry.