The Left Takes Notice of the ESG Oligarchy

Like metal filings between magnets, issues today line up with the “blue/progressive” pole or the “red/conservative” pole. But ideological simplification can disguise underlying currents where the lines of force touch and many on the Left and Right agree.

Take the case of ESG , or environmental, social, and governance standards devised by non-governmental organizations and imposed by asset managers in proxy challenges and orders on how to vote on corporate boards.

Statement on State AG warning to Net Zero Insurance Alliance

May 16, 2023 The state attorneys general are exposing the iron fist inside the green glove of the ESG cartel….

The ‘Policeman at Your Elbow’ Is Drunk

Tim Wu, who worked from the White House to coordinate the antitrust agenda of the early Biden Administration, explains the role of the government regulator as the necessary “policeman at the elbow” to restrain corporations from unfairly squeezing out competition. President Biden’s enforcers, Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, and Jonathan Kanter, head of the Department of Justice antitrust division, push progressive policing of the economy with enthusiasm.

Bork on Report Analyzing ‘Doomsday Mergers’: ‘The Doom and Gloom Predictions That Seem to Go Hand-in-Hand with Reports of Potential Mergers Have Been Overblown Time and Time Again’

New reports by the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE) show that many high-profile mergers have been highly criticized, saying they will do major harm to both competition and consumers.

According to the International Center for Law and Economics, critics like Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said that Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods in 2017 would crush competitors in physical retail.

Bork: FTC Continues to File Antitrust Lawsuits Despite ‘Near-Perfect Record of Striking Out in Court’

Lina Khan and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) she chairs are pursuing multiple cases against Google for alleged antitrust violations. Federal courts have ruled against the FTC and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in these types of cases much more often than not in recent months. However, while they have a track record of losing in court, these cases have fomented an atmosphere of regulatory uncertainty which some experts argue is by design.

Congress Can Investigate Lina Khan

Christine Wilson’s resignation from the Federal Trade Commission followed nearly two years of complaints about Chairman Lina Khan from her own staff and colleagues. Congress should investigate Ms. Khan’s leadership of the FTC.

Antitrust and ‘King Time’

The Department of Justice’s latest antitrust lawsuit against Google is predicated on correcting what many see as the damage that a few, big technology-based companies are inflicting on our country.

Responding to President Biden on Big Tech

He touts ‘legislation to hold Big Tech accountable.’ But accountable to whom? Jan. 19, 2023 10:32 am ET Some 720…

Time for Antitrust Action Against the Climate Cartel

COMMENTARY | By Robert H. Bork, Jr. | January 12, 2023 President Biden has blamed high energy prices on Saudi…

Will woke antitrust become the law without a vote?

By Robert H. Bork, Jr. | December 20, 2022 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), a newly reelected senator, on Thursday issued a public plea…