Gold-Backed or Bust: Judy Shelton’s Plan to Tame the Fed and Restore the Dollar
By Paul D. Mueller Judy Shelton has spent her career advocating for sound money. Her latest book, Good as Gold: How to Unleash the Power of…
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Climate “Reparations” Numbers Are Rigged
By Paul Mueller Nobel Prize–winning economist Esther Duflo thinks rich countries should pay poor countries $500 billion in compensation each year for climate-change damages. It…
ESG Puppeteers
By Paul Mueller The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework allows a small group of corporate executives, financiers, government officials, and other elites, the ESG…
A Short Guide to ESG: Conclusions
By Paul Mueller As I conclude this series depicting the ESG landscape, let me clarify a few of my conclusions. I’ve tried to keep my…
A Short Guide to ESG: Philosophical Problems
By Paul Mueller In addition to Economic Problems and Political Problems, philosophical objections to ESG abound but are rarely addressed by its advocates. Besides largely…
A Short Guide to ESG: Political Problems
By Paul Mueller Whether the political dimensions of ESG are features or bugs depends on your perspective. From the perspective of ordinary citizens, though, ESG…
A Short ESG Guide: Economic Problems
By Paul Mueller The Environmental, Social, and Governance movement has wrapped itself in the garb of justice. It is just as much a moral crusade…
A Short Guide to ESG: Legislation
By Paul Mueller Tracking and describing all ESG-related legislation falls well beyond the scope of this column (and this series) but surveying the legislative landscape…
A Short Guide to ESG: Finance
By Paul Mueller ESG has made significant inroads in the finance and investing community. Environmentalists have long used divestiture campaigns and impact investing to influence…
A Short Guide to ESG: Goals
By Paul Mueller At this point, we should try to get a clear picture of what ESG advocates hope to achieve. But because there are…
A Short Guide to ESG: Advocates
By Paul Mueller A truly dizzying alphabet soup of organizations advocates the use of Environmental, Social, and Governance criteria — CFI, GRI, MSCI, FSB, SASB,…
A Short Guide to ESG: History
This piece is the third in a series by Paul Mueller. Part I Part II The intellectual lineage of the ESG movement is fundamentally globalist…
A Short ESG Guide: Terms
By Paul Mueller ESG advocates use a variety of jargon to describe their activities and goals. Some are pretty straightforward to define, others are rather…
A Short ESG Guide: Introduction
By Paul Mueller The murky precepts of Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) criteria wield growing influence in investing and in regulation. Those who want to understand…