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Home Depot co-founder blames ‘woke diversity’ for businesses failing to ‘hit the bottom line’ — here are 3 stock picks you shouldn’t snooze on if you agree After a rant on the rise of socialism and “lazy” workers in the United States, Home Depot’s 93-year-old co-founder Bernie Marcus has now taken aim at “woke” business … Read more

Home Depot co-founder blames ‘woke diversity’ for businesses failing to ‘hit the bottom line’ — here are 3 stock picks you shouldn’t snooze on if you agree After a rant on the rise of socialism and “lazy” workers in the United States, Home Depot’s 93-year-old co-founder Bernie Marcus has now taken aim at “woke” business … Read more

Bernie Marcus, 90, grew up in Newark, New Jersey.Photo by Erik Lesser/Liaison Bernie Marcus was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1929 to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. He and Arthur Blank co-founded The Home Depot in 1978, and now the company has 2,300 stores. The former first CEO of Home Depot has decried younger generations … Read more

Attorney General Paxton and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes are leading a multistate coalition in sending a letter to International Shareholder Services, Inc. (“ISS”) and Glass, Lewis & Co. (“Glass Lewis”), which are companies that provide proxy voting advice to shareholders and aid them in the process of voting at shareholder meetings.   Given that ISS … Read more

When John Steinbeck was huddled over his desk, he sometimes found it helpful to imagine that the novel unspooling on the page was addressed to a single person, real or imagined. Modern writers bent on producing the great American novel also have an imaginary reader in their heads, according to Bernard Schweizer, an English professor … Read more

Comment on this story Comment Gift Article Bankrolled by mysterious donors, a little-known group named Consumers’ Research has emerged as a key player in the conservative crusade to prevent Wall Street from factoring climate change into its investment decisions. On Dec. 1, the group joined 13 state attorneys general in calling for a federal regulatory … Read more

by John Grimaldi WASHINGTON, DC, Jan 27 — Americans continue to relocate to Florida in record numbers. The sun and fun of the sunshine state has a lot to do with it but don’t discount the attraction of the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis. He’s just as popular across the country as he is in his own state. Governor … Read more