Opinion: Foolish CEOs butcher, bury capitalists

The Roundtable’s emphasis on ‘stakeholders’ helps emphasize the socialist movement and bury capitalism.

  • By Matt Walsh
  • | 5:54 p.m. August 29, 2019
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Business Roundtable Chairman and Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jamie Dimon.
Business Roundtable Chairman and Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jamie Dimon.
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On the morning the Business Roundtable published its full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal proclaiming its CEO members’ allegiance to “stakeholders” above shareholders, the following text message pinged my phone: 

“It made me puke. I’ve made it a personal policy to sell stocks in companies that put social ahead of shareholders. I have several sell orders in now.”

 

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