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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Take Larry Fink at His Word on ESG Pullback]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2023/11/20/when_it_comes_to_blackrocks_esg_pullback_dont_take_larry_fink_at_his_word_993403.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Shepard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BlackRock recently walked back its public commitments to ESG in various ways. And for good reason. BlackRock has lost billions of dollars from state pension funds and others pulling out of ESG funds w]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[10 Steps for Larry Fink To Stop Being a Comic Book Villain]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Shepard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was told recently by someone in a position to know that Larry Fink has been hurt by my having referred to him in these pages as a comic-book villain.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[BofA's Discrimination, Elitism, Fraud &amp; Bad Business]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2022/09/08/bank_of_americas_equity_racial_discrimination_elitism_fraud_and_bad_business_852101.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Shepard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bank of America (BoA)'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s newest racially discriminatory program provides a casebook study in what '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'equity'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is really about'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' racial discrimination perpetrated by billionaires against poor white people to atone on the backs of others for the fact that they are very,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wise States Pushing Back Against BlackRock, Larry Fink]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Shepard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Encouraging reports indicate that the more sensible of the states have finally begun to confront not only the leftist takeover of corporate boards and executive suites, but against the attempts by the modern malefactors of great power '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' Larry Fink and BlackRock, Brian Moynihan and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trips to Davos Have Gone to Larry Fink's Head]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2022/07/27/all_the_trips_to_davos_have_gone_to_larry_finks_head_844431.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Shepard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Larry Fink really has let all of those trips to Davos go to his head. In what is, so far as I know, the BlackRock CEO'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most recent act of public grandiloquence, he and BlackRock have urged the Securities &amp; Exchange Commission (SEC) to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' modify'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' its proposed greenhouse-gas...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Too Few People Want What Joe Scarborough Is Selling]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2022/06/16/too_few_people_want_what_joe_scarborough_is_selling_anymore_837569.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Shepard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[However badly the one-time pillars of the American news industry misunderstand economics, they cannot escape it. The law of supply and demand, like the gods of the copybook headings, will assert itself. This is very bad news for the industry, which in turn is struggling to cope.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Larry Fink's Incoherence Is Growing Louder]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2022/06/01/as_larry_fink_retreats_rhetorically_his_incoherence_grows_louder_834904.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott Shepard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, appears to know that his attempt to run the American economy, and to inflict his personal preferences on society from company headquarters, are at very least too obvious. And so he has been retreating from his grandest claims, at least rhetorically. His...]]></description>
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