Wir Sind Keine Berliner!

In June of 1963, twenty- two months after East Germany had erected the Berlin wall to prevent emigration to West Berlin, President John Kennedy came to Berlin and delivered one of the most famous speeches of…

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 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat . . . and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.…

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It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. (1)                                                                                                                                                                                                 Yogi Berra

We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities. (2)

                                                                                                            Warren Buffett…

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Back in November in a post titled Biden’s New ESG Rule Radically Alters the Concept of Individual Investing, I argued that IF CO2 emissions will lead to a climate…

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At the moment, climate realists are dancing in the street.  EV sales and the stocks of solar panel companies are sinking (1) (2), offshore wind projects are being abandoned around…

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I keep a spreadsheet with links to informative articles I have read on ESG and climate change.  I typically attach key words to each link so I can easily search…

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Recently, the ever-vigilant John Hinderaker at Power Line called our attention to a Wall St. Journal article (1) which posits that “the ESG brand probably has its best days behind…

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Do ESG Funds outperform, or are they doomed to lag the overall market?  You can find more studies than you would care to read arguing either side of the question…

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In the short run the stock market acts like a “voting machine” (reflecting all kinds of irrational attitudes and expectations), while functioning in the long run more like a “weighing…

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Background

In November of 2022, the Biden Dept. of Labor issued the “Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights” rule (The Rule) which allows employers to…