The 1792 exchange, a new nonprofit seeking to counter the rise of “woke capitalism” and the leftist trend of Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance (ESG) has compiled an index of over 1,000 companies to evaluate their political biases.

By: Mark P. Mills – wsj.com – February 1, 2023 Mr. Kara, a professor of human trafficking and modern slavery at Nottingham University and a senior fellow at Harvard’s School of Public Health, labels himself an activist. His journeys through the Congo’s jungles and mines are surprisingly reminiscent of the country’s 19th-century explorers, as he treks where few others have dared and...

The Walt Disney Co. is eliminating 7,000 jobs worldwide, or more than 3 percent of its workforce, as CEO Bob Iger aims to slash a stunning $5.5 billion in spending in an attempt to save the once formidable company.

As Brittany Bernstein reports, the FBI is now searching President Biden’s Rehoboth Beach home. This search, to which Biden consented, is occurring nearly three months to the day after a batch of highly classified documents was found in Biden’s private office at his Washington think tank.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 25, 2023 The Government Accountability Office this week released a review of the Labor Department’s handling of $878 billion in unemployment insurance handouts from April 2020 to September 2022. Labor estimates that fraud in its normal unemployment program hit $8.5 billion from July 2020 through June 2021. That’s 8.6% of outlays. GAO...

Employee layoffs can be painful and disruptive for the affected employees and their families. But from an economic standpoint, they can be beneficial.

What you need is people, and freedom. If you let human beings be free, they will create more value for everyone.”

A DOJ official who opposes pregnancy resource centers is responsible for overseeing the prosecution of two individuals indicted for attacking such centers.

We recently looked at a new Federal Reserve Bank analysis that found that virtually all of the current labor shortage could be explained by a pandemic-induced increase in baby boomer retirements.

By: Vivek Ramaswamy – wsj.com – January 16, 2023 Last year’s ESG backlash spawned a vigorous debate about the use of environmental, social and governance factors in capital allocation. I met with numerous state financial officers, pension-fund boards, policy makers and corporate leaders who solicited my perspectives and those of competing asset managers as they grappled with fiduciary questions relating to ESG....