Biden insists on anti-worker, anti-democracy ESG principles

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President Joe Biden’s Labor Department instituted a new environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, rule in May 2021. The rule has been described lazily as an attempt to promote corporate “sustainability.” But in fact, what it does is protect irresponsible investment managers from lawsuits if they ignore companies’ profitability and instead allocate investors’ and pensioners’ assets to companies based on their level of political correctness.

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