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Someone has to.	OBJ	true
“Our reference was to states that provide or have improved attorney licenses for immigrant populations, such as DACA recipients, legal immigrants and/or unauthorized immigrants,” Massey said by email.	OBJ	false
New Mexico Republicans denounced the ruling.	OBJ	false
Judicial activism is when you come up with an outcome-oriented decision based on the policies preferred by the judge or judges, rather than the law,” he said.	OBJ	false
The New Mexico document states that a “License to practice law shall not be denied based solely on the applicant’s citizenship or immigration status.” At the same time, the “Character and fitness standards and investigation” section that a law license applicant “bears the burden of proving good character in support of the application.”	OBJ	false
A beneficiary of the DACA program, she became an attorney in the state in 2017 under special rules.	OBJ	false
“Normally, the majority opinion would speak for itself.” The decision is “really about policy—our state has values of inclusion and diversity.” The ruling is based “on policy, which is the definition of judicial activism.	OBJ	false
The Left deliberately obscures the distinction between illegal aliens and people who immigrated lawfully to the United States.	SUBJ	false
Two categories of problematic behavior are “unlawful conduct” and “acts involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.”	OBJ	false
New Mexico has become the latest state to welcome illegal aliens as attorneys.	OBJ	false
The court made a policy decision, finding that going forward a lack of U.S. citizenship or immigration status may not be used to deny a law license to individuals in possession of a law degree and otherwise eligible to join the New Mexico Bar Association.	OBJ	false
“New Mexico is aligned with at least eight other states that allow attorney licensure for some immigrants, and the American Bar Association has endorsed the principle of permitting attorneys to practice law regardless of immigration status,” Bacon said.	OBJ	false
“In addition to those you listed, the 8 includes: Maine, which repealed a residency provision for applicants and a character reference requirement for foreign-trained applicants [and] Nevada, which prohibited the denial of an occupational or professional license based solely on the applicant’s citizenship or immigration status,” Massey said.	OBJ	false
This Court has gotten out of control, and it believes it can do whatever it wants.” Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, told me the Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico’s decision struck him as more “political” than “legal.”	OBJ	false
It is part of the leftist war not only on American values but on the English language.	OBJ	false
(DACA is then-President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration amnesty program that shields young people who came to the United States illegally from being deported.)	OBJ	false
They are California, Florida, Illinois, Nebraska, New York, and Wyoming.	OBJ	false
In theory, the problematic behavior parts of the New Mexico ruling could still prevent an illegal alien from being given authorization to practice law, but don’t count on it.	SUBJ	false
“Having a diverse bar is important because we want our clients to see themselves represented in those who take their cases and advocate for them,” she said.	OBJ	false
Leftists are also fond of invoking the magic of euphemism to make the social problems they create go away.	SUBJ	false
Leftists claim the perfectly good legal phrase “illegal alien” is somehow sinister and dehumanizing.	SUBJ	false
I asked Barry Massey, Public Information Officer for the New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts, to explain Bacon’s remarks.	OBJ	false
“The revelation of discovery of any of the following may be treated as cause for further inquiry before the Board of Bar Examiners determines whether the applicant possesses the character and fitness to practice law…”	OBJ	false
The new attorney admission rules were a “great victory” that will safeguard her attorney status even if the Supreme Court eventually invalidates DACA.	OBJ	false
“New Mexico’s high court has become authoritarian and appears to be operating outside the limits of its power,” said state GOP chairman Steve Pearce.	OBJ	false
This is also why the Left describes just about everyone touched by the nation’s immigration laws as an “immigrant” – whether they’re illegal aliens or legal permanent residents.	SUBJ	false
Smearing anyone who believes in the rule of law as anti-immigrant over and over again makes people defensive and wears down the opposition.	SUBJ	false
As of last year, California and Colorado had banned the phrase “illegal alien” in state laws.	OBJ	false
The new policy helps to blur the line between illegal aliens, lawfully present aliens, and U.S. citizens, which has long been a goal of the open-borders Left.	SUBJ	false
Democrats in Congress have tried to ban “alien” and “illegal alien,” replacing them with “foreign national” and “undocumented foreign national.”	OBJ	false
Presumably, since the woke state chief justice, Democrat C. Shannon Bacon, and her fellow justices are hellbent on letting illegal aliens practice law, illegal or unethical conduct flowing out of an illegal alien’s everyday acts aimed at escaping detection by authorities or at falsely appearing to be a legal alien, such as stealing Social Security numbers or other documents or impersonating other people, won’t prevent him or her from being admitted to the bar.	SUBJ	false
“I personally dedicated my career to doing exactly what this type of policy change does: Removing barriers to economic mobility and stability for immigrant families across our state,” she said.	OBJ	false
The court order concurred with changes recommended by the Board of Bar Examiners and the Code of Professional Conduct Committee.	OBJ	false
“It strikes me as interesting that the Chief Justice issued a statement,” Levey told me for another article.	OBJ	false
They use code to advance their agenda while concealing what they are actually trying to do.	OBJ	false
Of course, illegal aliens by definition are guilty of unlawful conduct and it is hard to imagine them going about their daily business without committing acts involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.	SUBJ	false
Meanwhile, social justice warrior Jazmin Irazoqui-Ruiz of the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center told the Las Cruces Sun News that she was thrilled at the new rules.	OBJ	false
The Left wants to devalue and abolish citizenship and what it means to be American, and confer all the benefits of being legal on people who are illegal – and it is succeeding.	SUBJ	false
The Left aims to make the hordes of illegal aliens their various so-called immigration reforms have unleashed on their fellow Americans over the years seem normal and acceptable.	SUBJ	false
This makes reading the reports indoctrinated policy wonks write difficult to read because when they write about “immigrants” it is unclear if they actually mean lawfully present immigrants or if they are using the word as a euphemism for illegal aliens.	SUBJ	false
The unanimous decision by the all-Democrat Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico, which came August 19 in the form of a new set of rules governing admission to the bar (pdf), is self-contradictory but it is clearer than most reports by leftist scribes.	SUBJ	false
“The change in the licensure rule is grounded in the fundamental principle of fairness, and is consistent with New Mexico’s historical values of inclusion and diversity in its culture,” Chief Justice C. Shannon Bacon, a Democrat, said in a statement.	OBJ	false
“This latest rule will open our borders even more, and the Court seems to relish making arbitrary decisions without thinking about consequences.	OBJ	false
In my research, I found only six other states that allow illegals to practice law.	OBJ	false
It’s a kind of brainwashing.	SUBJ	false
The Thought Police in the Biden-Harris regime ordered U.S. immigration enforcement agencies in April 2021 to refrain from using “alien” and “illegal alien.”	SUBJ	false
Although left-wingers are fond of saying conservatives speak in code –former Congressman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) famously said tax cuts were racist dog whistles (“It’s not ‘spic’ or ‘n*****’ anymore. They say, ‘Let’s cut taxes”)– leftists really do speak in code.	SUBJ	false
These illegal-alien lawyers will now be allowed to try to prevent their fellow illegal aliens from being deported.	SUBJ	true
In other words, those who are breaking U.S. law by their presence in the country, will now be allowed to practice law in the Land of Enchantment.	SUBJ	true
A lawyer is an officer of the court and should at a minimum not be a lawbreaker.	SUBJ	true
It is “bizarre” that in New Mexico “you can be here illegally, subject to arrest and deportation, and yet at the same time, you could be representing as a lawyer another illegal alien who’s facing the same thing.”	OBJ	true
Stakeholder capitalism refers—or at least used to refer—to the idea that companies should serve not just their shareholders, but also other societal interests.	OBJ	false
Proponents of this view, including the American economist Milton Friedman, worried that a shift away from shareholder primacy would make companies both less efficient and less profitable, leaving society as a whole worse off.	OBJ	false
By limiting the focus of corporate boards to shareholders’ financial interests alone, corporate law intended to confine the sphere of influence of corporations as a means of protecting democracy and other civic institutions from corporate overreach—just as society confers certain legal advantages to non-profit corporations in return for confining their activities to the sphere of charitable causes.	SUBJ	false
But if “stakeholder capitalism is capitalism,” then why was it necessary to popularise the term in the first place?	SUBJ	false
The everyday citizen in Western democracies ranging from America to Britain now correctly senses that something is amiss.	SUBJ	false
This refers to the legal barrier that prevents anyone wronged by a corporation from holding an owner of that corporation personally liable.	OBJ	false
Nonetheless I believe it falls short for legal and historical reasons that I lay out in “Woke, Inc”, my book published last year.	SUBJ	false
ESG funds often charge many times more for investment funds that are nearly indistinguishable from those without the ESG title.	OBJ	false
This raises my greatest concern of all with stakeholder capitalism, no matter how it’s defined: its proponents are eager to strengthen the link between democracy and capitalism at a time when we should instead assiduously disentangle one from the other.	SUBJ	false
Part of what it means to live in a democracy is for those questions to be determined by the citizenry—publicly through debate and privately at the ballot box—where each person’s view is unadjusted according to the number of dollars that he controls in the marketplace.	SUBJ	false
This is the great negative externality of stakeholder capitalism, and one that it ought to internalise by returning political power from its nebulous “stakeholders” back to citizens of nations.	SUBJ	false
In his letter from 2022 to America’s CEOs, Mr Fink asserted that “stakeholder capitalism…is not a social or ideological agenda.	OBJ	false
This has since become a popular refrain to defang Republican criticism of the ESG movement in particular.	OBJ	false
The apostles of stakeholder capitalism convene in ski towns to decry the rise of populism without recognising that populism is itself an inevitable byproduct of their creed.	SUBJ	false
The social fabric of a diverse democracy depends on preserving certain spaces as apolitical sanctuaries, especially in a divided body politic like ours.	SUBJ	false
WHEN I FIRST started writing about the rise of “stakeholder capitalism” in corporate America—and its close cousin, the ESG (environmental, social and governance) movement in capital markets—I had to explain what these terms meant because they were new concepts to most audiences.	OBJ	false
Thoughtful proponents of stakeholder capitalism argue that Friedman missed an important point: corporations do not exist in the state of nature, but exist only because society permits them to do so.	OBJ	false
The Economist has called limited liability “one of man’s greatest inventions”.	OBJ	false
This is the strongest case for stakeholder capitalism.	SUBJ	false
For the greater economic and political advantage enjoyed as a result by the people who get to coin the terms.	OBJ	false
No citizen in a democratic society should want executives from $10trn financial institutions to play a larger role than they already do in defining and implementing social values.	SUBJ	false
Therein lies a great irony: a movement whose core justification was the need for capitalists to internalise the negative externalities of their actions has now created a new negative externality.	SUBJ	false
Society endowed shareholders of corporations an extraordinary gift that ordinary persons do not enjoy: limited liability.	SUBJ	false
Many economic historians believe it helped power the Industrial Revolution.	OBJ	false
Numerous alumni of BlackRock and other ESG-promoting financial institutions occupy senior roles in the administration of an American president who has himself voiced support for stakeholder capitalism.	OBJ	false
This is what the world’s most influential proponent of stakeholder capitalism, BlackRock’s chief executive Larry Fink, meant when he proclaimed that “companies need to earn their social license to operate every day.” This is a respectable view.	SUBJ	false
But as I awaited a rebuttal to my argument, something curious happened: the world’s greatest proponents of stakeholder capitalism responded with the surprising claim that actually stakeholder capitalism is indeed the same thing as plain old capitalism.	SUBJ	false
In return for this extraordinary gift, corporate shareholders owed an implicit obligation back to society: namely, that corporations ought to consider not only shareholder interests but broader societal interests when making decisions.	SUBJ	false
It’s arguably the most damaging of them all: rampant and increasingly irresolvable cultural discord in democracies around the world.	SUBJ	false
In it I argued that the reason corporate law codifies shareholder primacy is not simply to protect shareholders, but to protect democracy.	OBJ	false
Our system of unbridled profit-focused capitalism used to serve as perhaps the most important of those sanctuaries, but no longer.	SUBJ	false
Stakeholder capitalism poisons democracy and partisan politics poisons capitalism.	SUBJ	false
Citizens, not corporate chiefs, should tackle social issues, says the entrepreneur and author	OBJ	false
This notion stands in sharp contrast to shareholder capitalism, which calls for corporate executives to maximise shareholder return above all else.	OBJ	false
It is not ‘woke.’ It is capitalism.” (The emphasis is his).	OBJ	false
And our society’s approach to addressing important social questions such as climate change and racial inequity are more heavily influenced by the dictates of corporate chiefs in Davos than they are by the voices of everyday citizens in the public square.	SUBJ	false
They’re probably right.	SUBJ	false
That fact alone underscores the biggest problem of all with these movements.	SUBJ	false
Stakeholder capitalism poisons democracy, argues Vivek Ramaswamy	OBJ	false
Today I must explain what they mean for a different reason: the terms themselves are now widely familiar, but their definitions have been diluted by their greatest champions.	SUBJ	true
Or at least, so I argued.	OBJ	true
His voice counts for less when corporate elites use market power to settle political questions.	SUBJ	true
The creation of the limited-liability corporation was a potent tool to not simply unlock economic gains through the private sector, but also stop potentially limitless corporate power that could infect other spheres of society beyond the marketplace for goods and services.	SUBJ	true
Reasonable minds can differ on this question, and this debate will take further book-length works to fully adjudicate.	SUBJ	true
Stakeholder capitalism is part of a broader worldview that holds that corporate leaders should play a fundamental role in determining and implementing a society’s core values.	SUBJ	true
China’s rulers seem resigned to a slowing economy	OBJ	false
Its fiscal deficit, broadly defined to include off-budget borrowing, will increase this year.	OBJ	false
To plug budgetary holes, 80 out of 111 cities tracked by Southern Weekly, a mainland newspaper, increased the amount they collected in fines last year.	OBJ	false
The lack of avid borrowers is blunting China’s monetary policy, much as it did in other big economies after the global financial crisis.	OBJ	false

Someone has to.

OBJ

true

“Our reference was to states that provide or have improved attorney licenses for immigrant populations, such as DACA recipients, legal immigrants and/or unauthorized immigrants,” Massey said by email.

OBJ

false

New Mexico Republicans denounced the ruling.

OBJ

false

Judicial activism is when you come up with an outcome-oriented decision based on the policies preferred by the judge or judges, rather than the law,” he said.

OBJ

false

The New Mexico document states that a “License to practice law shall not be denied based solely on the applicant’s citizenship or immigration status.” At the same time, the “Character and fitness standards and investigation” section that a law license applicant “bears the burden of proving good character in support of the application.”

OBJ

false

A beneficiary of the DACA program, she became an attorney in the state in 2017 under special rules.

OBJ

false

“Normally, the majority opinion would speak for itself.” The decision is “really about policy—our state has values of inclusion and diversity.” The ruling is based “on policy, which is the definition of judicial activism.

OBJ

false

The Left deliberately obscures the distinction between illegal aliens and people who immigrated lawfully to the United States.

SUBJ

false

Two categories of problematic behavior are “unlawful conduct” and “acts involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.”

OBJ

false

New Mexico has become the latest state to welcome illegal aliens as attorneys.

OBJ

false

The court made a policy decision, finding that going forward a lack of U.S. citizenship or immigration status may not be used to deny a law license to individuals in possession of a law degree and otherwise eligible to join the New Mexico Bar Association.

OBJ

false

“New Mexico is aligned with at least eight other states that allow attorney licensure for some immigrants, and the American Bar Association has endorsed the principle of permitting attorneys to practice law regardless of immigration status,” Bacon said.

OBJ

false

“In addition to those you listed, the 8 includes: Maine, which repealed a residency provision for applicants and a character reference requirement for foreign-trained applicants [and] Nevada, which prohibited the denial of an occupational or professional license based solely on the applicant’s citizenship or immigration status,” Massey said.

OBJ

false

This Court has gotten out of control, and it believes it can do whatever it wants.” Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, told me the Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico’s decision struck him as more “political” than “legal.”

OBJ

false

It is part of the leftist war not only on American values but on the English language.

OBJ

false

(DACA is then-President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration amnesty program that shields young people who came to the United States illegally from being deported.)

OBJ

false

They are California, Florida, Illinois, Nebraska, New York, and Wyoming.

OBJ

false

In theory, the problematic behavior parts of the New Mexico ruling could still prevent an illegal alien from being given authorization to practice law, but don’t count on it.

SUBJ

false

“Having a diverse bar is important because we want our clients to see themselves represented in those who take their cases and advocate for them,” she said.

OBJ

false

Leftists are also fond of invoking the magic of euphemism to make the social problems they create go away.

SUBJ

false

Leftists claim the perfectly good legal phrase “illegal alien” is somehow sinister and dehumanizing.

SUBJ

false

I asked Barry Massey, Public Information Officer for the New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts, to explain Bacon’s remarks.

OBJ

false

“The revelation of discovery of any of the following may be treated as cause for further inquiry before the Board of Bar Examiners determines whether the applicant possesses the character and fitness to practice law…”

OBJ

false

The new attorney admission rules were a “great victory” that will safeguard her attorney status even if the Supreme Court eventually invalidates DACA.

OBJ

false

“New Mexico’s high court has become authoritarian and appears to be operating outside the limits of its power,” said state GOP chairman Steve Pearce.

OBJ

false

This is also why the Left describes just about everyone touched by the nation’s immigration laws as an “immigrant” – whether they’re illegal aliens or legal permanent residents.

SUBJ

false

Smearing anyone who believes in the rule of law as anti-immigrant over and over again makes people defensive and wears down the opposition.

SUBJ

false

As of last year, California and Colorado had banned the phrase “illegal alien” in state laws.

OBJ

false

The new policy helps to blur the line between illegal aliens, lawfully present aliens, and U.S. citizens, which has long been a goal of the open-borders Left.

SUBJ

false

Democrats in Congress have tried to ban “alien” and “illegal alien,” replacing them with “foreign national” and “undocumented foreign national.”

OBJ

false

Presumably, since the woke state chief justice, Democrat C. Shannon Bacon, and her fellow justices are hellbent on letting illegal aliens practice law, illegal or unethical conduct flowing out of an illegal alien’s everyday acts aimed at escaping detection by authorities or at falsely appearing to be a legal alien, such as stealing Social Security numbers or other documents or impersonating other people, won’t prevent him or her from being admitted to the bar.

SUBJ

false

“I personally dedicated my career to doing exactly what this type of policy change does: Removing barriers to economic mobility and stability for immigrant families across our state,” she said.

OBJ

false

The court order concurred with changes recommended by the Board of Bar Examiners and the Code of Professional Conduct Committee.

OBJ

false

“It strikes me as interesting that the Chief Justice issued a statement,” Levey told me for another article.

OBJ

false

They use code to advance their agenda while concealing what they are actually trying to do.

OBJ

false

Of course, illegal aliens by definition are guilty of unlawful conduct and it is hard to imagine them going about their daily business without committing acts involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.

SUBJ

false

Meanwhile, social justice warrior Jazmin Irazoqui-Ruiz of the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center told the Las Cruces Sun News that she was thrilled at the new rules.

OBJ

false

The Left wants to devalue and abolish citizenship and what it means to be American, and confer all the benefits of being legal on people who are illegal – and it is succeeding.

SUBJ

false

The Left aims to make the hordes of illegal aliens their various so-called immigration reforms have unleashed on their fellow Americans over the years seem normal and acceptable.

SUBJ

false

This makes reading the reports indoctrinated policy wonks write difficult to read because when they write about “immigrants” it is unclear if they actually mean lawfully present immigrants or if they are using the word as a euphemism for illegal aliens.

SUBJ

false

The unanimous decision by the all-Democrat Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico, which came August 19 in the form of a new set of rules governing admission to the bar (pdf), is self-contradictory but it is clearer than most reports by leftist scribes.

SUBJ

false

“The change in the licensure rule is grounded in the fundamental principle of fairness, and is consistent with New Mexico’s historical values of inclusion and diversity in its culture,” Chief Justice C. Shannon Bacon, a Democrat, said in a statement.

OBJ

false

“This latest rule will open our borders even more, and the Court seems to relish making arbitrary decisions without thinking about consequences.

OBJ

false

In my research, I found only six other states that allow illegals to practice law.

OBJ

false

It’s a kind of brainwashing.

SUBJ

false

The Thought Police in the Biden-Harris regime ordered U.S. immigration enforcement agencies in April 2021 to refrain from using “alien” and “illegal alien.”

SUBJ

false

Although left-wingers are fond of saying conservatives speak in code –former Congressman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) famously said tax cuts were racist dog whistles (“It’s not ‘spic’ or ‘n*****’ anymore. They say, ‘Let’s cut taxes”)– leftists really do speak in code.

SUBJ

false

These illegal-alien lawyers will now be allowed to try to prevent their fellow illegal aliens from being deported.

SUBJ

true

In other words, those who are breaking U.S. law by their presence in the country, will now be allowed to practice law in the Land of Enchantment.

SUBJ

true

A lawyer is an officer of the court and should at a minimum not be a lawbreaker.

SUBJ

true

It is “bizarre” that in New Mexico “you can be here illegally, subject to arrest and deportation, and yet at the same time, you could be representing as a lawyer another illegal alien who’s facing the same thing.”

OBJ

true

Stakeholder capitalism refers—or at least used to refer—to the idea that companies should serve not just their shareholders, but also other societal interests.

OBJ

false

Proponents of this view, including the American economist Milton Friedman, worried that a shift away from shareholder primacy would make companies both less efficient and less profitable, leaving society as a whole worse off.

OBJ

false

By limiting the focus of corporate boards to shareholders’ financial interests alone, corporate law intended to confine the sphere of influence of corporations as a means of protecting democracy and other civic institutions from corporate overreach—just as society confers certain legal advantages to non-profit corporations in return for confining their activities to the sphere of charitable causes.

SUBJ

false

But if “stakeholder capitalism is capitalism,” then why was it necessary to popularise the term in the first place?

SUBJ

false

The everyday citizen in Western democracies ranging from America to Britain now correctly senses that something is amiss.

SUBJ

false

This refers to the legal barrier that prevents anyone wronged by a corporation from holding an owner of that corporation personally liable.

OBJ

false

Nonetheless I believe it falls short for legal and historical reasons that I lay out in “Woke, Inc”, my book published last year.

SUBJ

false

ESG funds often charge many times more for investment funds that are nearly indistinguishable from those without the ESG title.

OBJ

false

This raises my greatest concern of all with stakeholder capitalism, no matter how it’s defined: its proponents are eager to strengthen the link between democracy and capitalism at a time when we should instead assiduously disentangle one from the other.

SUBJ

false

Part of what it means to live in a democracy is for those questions to be determined by the citizenry—publicly through debate and privately at the ballot box—where each person’s view is unadjusted according to the number of dollars that he controls in the marketplace.

SUBJ

false

This is the great negative externality of stakeholder capitalism, and one that it ought to internalise by returning political power from its nebulous “stakeholders” back to citizens of nations.

SUBJ

false

In his letter from 2022 to America’s CEOs, Mr Fink asserted that “stakeholder capitalism…is not a social or ideological agenda.

OBJ

false

This has since become a popular refrain to defang Republican criticism of the ESG movement in particular.

OBJ

false

The apostles of stakeholder capitalism convene in ski towns to decry the rise of populism without recognising that populism is itself an inevitable byproduct of their creed.

SUBJ

false

The social fabric of a diverse democracy depends on preserving certain spaces as apolitical sanctuaries, especially in a divided body politic like ours.

SUBJ

false

WHEN I FIRST started writing about the rise of “stakeholder capitalism” in corporate America—and its close cousin, the ESG (environmental, social and governance) movement in capital markets—I had to explain what these terms meant because they were new concepts to most audiences.

OBJ

false

Thoughtful proponents of stakeholder capitalism argue that Friedman missed an important point: corporations do not exist in the state of nature, but exist only because society permits them to do so.

OBJ

false

The Economist has called limited liability “one of man’s greatest inventions”.

OBJ

false

This is the strongest case for stakeholder capitalism.

SUBJ

false

For the greater economic and political advantage enjoyed as a result by the people who get to coin the terms.

OBJ

false

No citizen in a democratic society should want executives from $10trn financial institutions to play a larger role than they already do in defining and implementing social values.

SUBJ

false

Therein lies a great irony: a movement whose core justification was the need for capitalists to internalise the negative externalities of their actions has now created a new negative externality.

SUBJ

false

Society endowed shareholders of corporations an extraordinary gift that ordinary persons do not enjoy: limited liability.

SUBJ

false

Many economic historians believe it helped power the Industrial Revolution.

OBJ

false

Numerous alumni of BlackRock and other ESG-promoting financial institutions occupy senior roles in the administration of an American president who has himself voiced support for stakeholder capitalism.

OBJ

false

This is what the world’s most influential proponent of stakeholder capitalism, BlackRock’s chief executive Larry Fink, meant when he proclaimed that “companies need to earn their social license to operate every day.” This is a respectable view.

SUBJ

false

But as I awaited a rebuttal to my argument, something curious happened: the world’s greatest proponents of stakeholder capitalism responded with the surprising claim that actually stakeholder capitalism is indeed the same thing as plain old capitalism.

SUBJ

false

In return for this extraordinary gift, corporate shareholders owed an implicit obligation back to society: namely, that corporations ought to consider not only shareholder interests but broader societal interests when making decisions.

SUBJ

false

It’s arguably the most damaging of them all: rampant and increasingly irresolvable cultural discord in democracies around the world.

SUBJ

false

In it I argued that the reason corporate law codifies shareholder primacy is not simply to protect shareholders, but to protect democracy.

OBJ

false

Our system of unbridled profit-focused capitalism used to serve as perhaps the most important of those sanctuaries, but no longer.

SUBJ

false

Stakeholder capitalism poisons democracy and partisan politics poisons capitalism.

SUBJ

false

Citizens, not corporate chiefs, should tackle social issues, says the entrepreneur and author

OBJ

false

This notion stands in sharp contrast to shareholder capitalism, which calls for corporate executives to maximise shareholder return above all else.

OBJ

false

It is not ‘woke.’ It is capitalism.” (The emphasis is his).

OBJ

false

And our society’s approach to addressing important social questions such as climate change and racial inequity are more heavily influenced by the dictates of corporate chiefs in Davos than they are by the voices of everyday citizens in the public square.

SUBJ

false

They’re probably right.

SUBJ

false

That fact alone underscores the biggest problem of all with these movements.

SUBJ

false

Stakeholder capitalism poisons democracy, argues Vivek Ramaswamy

OBJ

false

Today I must explain what they mean for a different reason: the terms themselves are now widely familiar, but their definitions have been diluted by their greatest champions.

SUBJ

true

Or at least, so I argued.

OBJ

true

His voice counts for less when corporate elites use market power to settle political questions.

SUBJ

true

The creation of the limited-liability corporation was a potent tool to not simply unlock economic gains through the private sector, but also stop potentially limitless corporate power that could infect other spheres of society beyond the marketplace for goods and services.

SUBJ

true

Reasonable minds can differ on this question, and this debate will take further book-length works to fully adjudicate.

SUBJ

true

Stakeholder capitalism is part of a broader worldview that holds that corporate leaders should play a fundamental role in determining and implementing a society’s core values.

SUBJ

true

China’s rulers seem resigned to a slowing economy

OBJ

false

Its fiscal deficit, broadly defined to include off-budget borrowing, will increase this year.

OBJ

false

To plug budgetary holes, 80 out of 111 cities tracked by Southern Weekly, a mainland newspaper, increased the amount they collected in fines last year.

OBJ

false

The lack of avid borrowers is blunting China’s monetary policy, much as it did in other big economies after the global financial crisis.

OBJ

false