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New York Times singles out CEOs who didn’t sign anti-voting laws statement published in the New York Times Becket Adams New York Times is naming names again. The paper of record on Wednesday singled out business CEOs who declined to sign a statement, which appeared this week as a two-page advertisement in both the New York Times and the Washington Post, protesting voting laws such as the ones passed recently in Georgia. “For American democracy to work for any of us, we must ensure the right to vote for all of us,” the statement reads, adding its signatories should “...

Some of the top asset managers in the U.S. on Wednesday joined hundreds of corporations, executives, and celebrities in releasing a statement in opposition to “any discriminatory legislation” that would restrict access to voting.  T. Rowe Price, Vanguard, and BlackRock all signed on to the statement, which said, “Voting is the lifeblood of our democracy and we call upon all Americans to join us in taking a nonpartisan stand for this most basic and fundamental right of all Americans.” Goldman Sachs, Bain, AIG, and Cambridge Associates also signed the statement, as well as private equi...

Axios, the call included "a long list of business luminaries, including James Murdoch, Ken Chenault, Ken Frazier, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Levi Strauss CEO Chip Bergh, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, and executives of Delta, United and American Airlines," which expanded on a March initiative by 72 black executives to oppose election legislation in Georgia deemed to suppress the vote (yet nobody can articulate how). CEO virtue signaling is such a transparent head-fake to keep the progressive mob from attacking them on pay & a lot more -- Median pay for CEOs of more than 300 of th...

Defying Republicans, big companies keep the focus on voting rights By David Gelles New York Times,Updated April 12, 2021, 5:34 p.m. Email to a Friend Ken Frazier, the Merck chief executive. Frazier has called on corporate executives to publicly state their support for broader ballot access.MIKE COHEN/NYT As corporate America continues to push back against a wave of restrictive voting laws under discussion across the United States, Big Law is joining the fight. A coalition of 60 major law firms has come together “to challenge voter suppression legislation and to support national legislati...

Beijing tightens the screws Over the weekend, Chinese officials fined Alibaba a record $2.8 billion over antitrust violations. It was the biggest penalty yet as the Chinese government scrutinizes Jack Ma’s business empire — and it served as a warning for the country’s other internet giants. The fine was linked to Alibaba’s locking of merchants into its sales platform, according to the Chinese market authority, and vastly exceeds the agency’s previous largest fine, a $975 million antitrust penalty imposed on Qualcomm in 2015. A commentary published in the state-run People’s Daily m...