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During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” President Joe Biden stated that while “corporate greed” has caused an increase in the amount of money people have to spend on groceries and people feel real pain from the cost of groceries and food and he’s angry people have to spend more, “if you take a look at what people have, they have the money to spend.” Host Erin Burnett said, “[T]here’s real pain. Grocery prices are up 30% — more than 30% since the beginning of the pandemic, and people are spending more on food and groceries than...

Generation Z is ditching the corporate grind in spades. According to a new study by Credit Karma, among Gen Z U.S. adults ages 18+, 60% say traditional 9 to 5 jobs are "soul-sucking," with 43% saying they have no desire to work a traditional 9 to 5 job at all. While there’s been no discussion of whether or not this trend applies more to women than to men, much of the discussion about this topic suggests women are leading the charge—which makes sense, since social media, a largely female space, is in part why young women don’t want to work...

A coalition of diversity groups is pushing large corporations to continue race-based programs in the face of mounting legal pressure, according to a letter shared by consumer freedom advocate Will Hild. Hild posted a letter Wednesday on Twitter written by organizations committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) to Fortune 500 companies urging them to withstand pressure caused by lawsuits and political opposition. “We believe it is imperative that CEOs and other company leaders are able to make strategic decisions for their companies without threats of frivolous lawsuits and political pressure, and we will be here with support, every step...

What happened to the 1995 ruling my client won in Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña? .. The corporate media are just now discovering what I learned in 2015, that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), under the direction of President Barack Obama, hires air traffic controllers (ATC) on the basis of race. Of course, President Biden, as part of his commitment to “equity,” took it further. His FAA “identified” certain disabilities as deserving of “special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” including “epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, [and] psychiatric disability.” How in the world did it come to this? Twenty-nine years ago this...

On January 1, 2024, the new requirement to file a beneficial ownership information (BOI) report with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) goes into effect. More than 32 million entities – mostly small businesses – will have to file this report, which is required by a federal law called the Corporate Transparency Act. Violations of this law can result in a civil penalty of $500 per day the violation continues and criminal penalties of up to $10,000 and two years in prison. January 1 is fast approaching. Now is the time for all small business owners to start preparing. Below...

Billionaire Warren Buffet believes he is special. He doesn't think he should be forced to inform the SEC when he is amassing shares in a stock because if people knew they might push up the price of additional shares. Everyone should pull out their violin. Sadly, the SEC, which is supposedly for transparency and equal administration of regulations, has allowed this nonsense, and in a sense, given him a huge kickback for almost thirty years by allowing him to amass bigger positions in secret. Here's a news item I found dating from 1997: Berkshire Trading Kept Secret Sec Grants Buffet...

The IRS is cracking down on domestic tax evasion by going after wealthy individuals and complex private partnerships, but some of the biggest tax evaders — U.S. multinational corporations — are still exploiting legal gray areas to stash money overseas and keep it out of the government’s reach. Fed up with a stalled international effort at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to rein in the use of tax havens and put a global corporate minimum tax into force, African countries at the United Nations are now leading a charge for greater transparency and fairness in international tax.

The Coca-Cola Company quietly removed references to its financial support for Black Lives Matter from its official website after the controversial group expressed support for Hamas terrorists who killed at least 1,400 Israeli soldiers and civilians earlier this month. BLM’s Chicago chapter sparked outrage with a now-deleted post on X showing a photo of a paraglider with the text “I stand with Palestine.” Hamas terrorists used paragliders to pour across the Israel-Gaza border and massacre scores of revelers at a trance music festival. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) blasted Coca-Cola on his podcast last week, particularly after the soft drink giant...

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Lindsay Jones, better known as TexasLindsay, quit her corporate job last year to dedicate her time to spreading the truth about the harms of the COVID-19 vaccine. Jones joined Liz Collin Reports this week to discuss her work fighting Big Tech censorship, including helping write the Twitter Files. Jones first became aware of mass censorship in January 2021 when she read what she called an “alarming” article from a Ph.D. researcher. The article exposed the dangers of the COVID-19 vaccine for children. Jones knew she had to get the information out, so she shared the article on Facebook. What usually...

Some of the largest general consumer S&P 500 companies are raising prices to boost their own profits even as the Fed raised interest rates to control inflation, according to a new watchdog report. “Higher interest rates haven’t stopped S&P companies, especially in the big food industry, from inflating consumer prices despite reporting billions in extra net earnings and over a trillion dollars in giveaways to wealthy investors,” said Liz Zelnick, the director of economic security and corporate power at the nonprofit Accountable.US, in a release.

From advancing same-sex marriage to blocking “bathroom bills” to opposing attempts to legalize discrimination, corporate America has been among the most consistent and vocal supporters of LGBTQ equality over the last several years. But now, as an unprecedented wave of legislation targeting transgender people blankets much of the country, many of the same companies that engaged vigorously in earlier battles are taking a quieter and more restrained approach. Ask a transgender advocate which corporations or business executives are prominently standing against the legislative barrage, and the most frequent response is: No one. That’s a difference that’s been noted by many...

The recent retreat by corporate America on Gay Pride Month and the backtracking by the national security state and the media on Ukraine do not demonstrate a change of heart. After a decade of intensifying demands from the Left’s social revolution, over the last few weeks something unusual happened: a retreat. Large companies have pulled down their rainbow flag logos. Black Lives Matter and Juneteenth are not as prominent this year. There has even been a belated acknowledgment that maybe Ukraine is not winning the war, and, by the way, that a lot of Ukrainians actually are Nazis. This...

From advancing same-sex marriage to blocking “bathroom bills” to opposing attempts to legalize discrimination, corporate America has been among the most consistent and vocal supporters of LGBTQ equality over the last several years. But now, as an unprecedented wave of legislation targeting transgender people blankets much of the country, many of the same companies that engaged vigorously in earlier battles are taking a quieter and more restrained approach.

The Trevor Project, whose mission is to “end suicide among LGBTQ young people,” has partnered with common household brands to develop their respective pride-themed collections and has, in some cases, received seven-figure donations from corporate sponsors. The major corporate partnerships, which include iconic clothing brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch to fast food chains like Chipotle, come despite the organization’s unsafe online practices. The youth-oriented LGBT activist group hosts an anonymous online chat forum “Trevor Space,” which allows adults to communicate with minors, National Review previously reported. The organization hosts multiple age-segregated chatrooms but has no age-verification system in place,...

I’m old enough to have been active in gay rights when you could be arrested in some American jurisdictions for a kiss. Back then, a rainbow flag outside a bar or other establishment meant you could walk in without being kicked out — or worse. Flying it was a risk — and an act of humanity. Then gay rights emerged, and Pride marches — i.e., earnest demonstrations for equality — morphed into Pride parades — i.e., silly displays. Pride Month was born, complete with corporate sponsors.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald has highlighted how a new Harris-Harvard poll, which has been covered practically nowhere in the mainstream media, displays how Americans hold almost wholly opposite opinions to liberal corporate media narratives.A newly released Harris-Harvard poll conclusively demonstrates how radically out of touch is liberal corporate media with the views of Americans. It's not just that corporate media rejects Americans' views. They don't permit those views to be heard.https://t.co/Lor6QSUnl6 — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 21, 2023Greenwald noted that majorities of Americans consider ‘Russian collusion’ as a false story, and believe the Hunter Biden laptop story was never ‘misinformation’, despite...

U.S. corporate bankruptcies have reached their highest level since 2010. Many American companies have been stumbling in the wake of the pandemic due to increasing interest rates, supply-chain issues, and rising costs. Several of the firms have filed for bankruptcy after access to low interest loans and access to easy money began to wane. “For 2009, there were 118 bankruptcies through April. In COVID-impacted 2020, there were 71 bankruptcies. In 2023, there have been 70. This is the third worst start to the year since 2000,” said Mike Shedlock, an economist. The Federal Reserve is predicting a mild recession by...

OK, that was probably the most bizarre post title I've ever written, but if you need a break from the bizarre show trial up in NY that even has reliable Leftists scratching their heads then read on! First off, I never got around to writing a post on Hershey's Chocloate's woke campaign of celbrating Women's History Month by erasing women and replacing them with men. When did even my beloved childhood candy decide it now needs to hate me? Seriously, I'm so old I remember when a seemingly all American brand like Hershey proudly branded itself "The Great American Chocolate...

Here is a list of major corporations promoting and glorifying gender dysphoria. Rather than highlight the dangerous and irreversible procedures associated with transgenderism, such as chemical castration and genital mutilation, many major corporations have opted to champion trans ideology — even for unsuspecting children. In order to help Americans hold these companies financially accountable, The Federalist has compiled a list of major businesses promoting and glorifying gender dysphoria. 36. Amazon Amazon has a history of catering to LGBT activists by promoting their content and memory holing any products or materials that discuss the severe and irreversible damage ill-named “transitions” have...