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Apr 20 2024
News
How One Corporation Is Cashing In on America’s Drought
This story originally appeared in the The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One of the biggest battles over Colorado River water is being staged in one of the West’s smallest rural enclaves. Tucked into the bends of the lower Colorado River, Cibola, Arizona, is a community of about 200 people. Maybe 300, if you count the weekenders who come to boat and hunt. Dusty
WiredApr 08 2024
Analysis
Is Corporate America in Denial About Trump?
There was anxiety in the thin mountain air when the planet’s economic leaders gathered in January at Davos for the 54th meeting of the World Economic Forum. Donald Trump had just trounced Nikki Haley in the Iowa caucuses, all but securing the Republican nomination for president. Haley was reliable, a known quantity. A resurgent Trump, on the other hand, was more worrying.
The Davos
New York Times (News)Apr 09 2024
News
El-Erian Says Corporate America Is Signaling It’s Time for the Fed to Ease
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If the US economy looks so great, why, many are asking, should the Federal Reserve cut rates at all?
BloombergJan 09 2024
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The Latest Dirty Word in Corporate America: ESG
Many companies no longer utter these three letters: E-S-G.
Following years of simmering investor backlash, political pressure and legal threats over environmental, social and governance efforts, a number of business leaders are now making a conscious effort to avoid the once widely used acronym for such initiatives.
On earnings calls, many chief executives now employ new
Wall Street Journal (News)Nov 27 2023
News
DEI backlash hits corporate America
U.S. companies' diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are losing momentum this year after the Supreme Court's June affirmative action ruling, per a consulting firm's new report.
Why it matters: The slowdown is a reversal from the explosion in corporate DEI after George Floyd's killing pushed companies to act to address racial inequality.
"2023 has undeniably shifted the DEI
AxiosApr 10 2024
News
The American corporations stoking illegal immigration
When the meatpacking giant, Tyson Foods, announced plans last month to shutter its pork plant in Perry, Iowa and lay-off all 1,200 employees, it brought rare attention to one of the most influential, less scrutinised, dynamics of America’s mass migration debate. That is, the role played by large, politically connected corporations seeking to blunt wage growth.
For this isn’t a time of
UnHerdApr 11 2024
News
Dormant Commerce and Corporate Jurisdiction
Personal jurisdiction aficionados have been buzzing about the Court's decision last summer in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. and what it might mean for jurisdiction over interstate corporations. In particular, Justice Alito's concurrence reintroduced some dormant-commerce questions that used to play a major role but have largely been forgotten since International Shoe. I've got a new
ReasonApr 18 2024
News
London stocks boosted by strong corporate results
April 18 (Reuters) - British stocks opened higher on Thursday, boosted by a string of upbeat corporate results, while investors await comments from Bank of England policymaker Megan Greene to gauge the outlook on interest rates. The resource-heavy FTSE 100 (.FTSE) had gained 0.4% by 7:10 GMT and the mid-cap FTSE 250 (.FTMC) was up 0.1%. The pound against the dollar appreciated by 0.1%. Shares
ReutersApr 16 2024
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Minnesota Legislature weighs corporations’ role in state’s economy
A recent exchange in a House committee hearing between DFL and Republican lawmakers over the role of capitalism illustrated a significant political question that dominates the debate over taxes and regulation: Are corporations good or bad? Are they positive to the state, or a drag? By both policy and rhetoric, DFL lawmakers and Gov. Tim Walz, have taken aim at big business and the wealthy as a