KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The World Bank said it will not consider new loans to Uganda after the East African country earlier this year enacted an anti-gay bill that rights groups and others have condemned. The World Bank had deployed a team to Uganda … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, If you didn’t see Jane Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival, you should. She’s still beautiful, but crazier than a bedbug. She says the executives of oil and energy companies should be put in jail. For what? … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, It’s highly unusual but believe it or not, we have good news. What a difference a day makes, because none of this saw daylight until after the monthly letter went to the printer. Have you seen the … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, So they caught the guy responsible for publicizing highly classified documents. Everyone’s concerned that this young (21 yr. old) guy would have access to such ruinous documents But they got him. The news media is all over … Read More
The same day, Biden used his first veto to reverse a Republic-led anti-ESG bill HSBC’s slow crawl away from oil and gas is still too much for Texas. Texas comptroller Glenn Hegar yesterday (Mar. 20) added Europe’s largest bank to … Read More
BOSTON, Dec 27 (Reuters) – A movement by financial firms and activists to challenge companies over their efforts on climate change and social inequality faced organised and growing push-back in 2022, led by Republican U.S. politicians. Focusing on environmental, social … Read More
Florida is yanking $2 billion worth of state assets managed by BlackRock, escalating the GOP standoff with the world’s largest money manager over its ESG investment policies. The state treasury will freeze about $1.43 billion worth of long-term securities and … Read More
Texas banned BlackRock and nine other finance firms from working with the Lone Star state after declaring they were hostile to fossil fuels. Glenn Hegar, the state comptroller, on Wednesday published a list of the financial companies that will be … Read More