(To view the full Policy Brief, click here) Key Takeaways: The proposed 2022 amendments to Articles 9 and 12 of the Uniform Commercial Code strip individuals of their property rights to real-world assets. The entities responsible for the UCC’s governance consist of partisan actors who serve special interests. The UCC has already been used to abrogate property rights to investment securities through amendments to Article 8. The 2022 amendments facilitate […]
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To view the full letter, click here. Dear State Legislators and Other Elected Officials, Questions are now being raised about important laws that have been added to state codes in all 50 states over the past 25 years. These laws were deliberately designed to abrogate private property rights and could in the future be used to harm all Americans who hold investment securities, including those held in IRA […]
Click here to read the full policy brief. Public health emergency declarations and the policies that flow from them are fresh in the minds of the American public, with the actions taken by federal, state, and local governments during the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to be fiercely debated. Substantial questions remain concerning the source and accuracy of public health information used to justify the response to the pandemic, and over […]
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics are a popular kind of social credit scoring, one that poses a significant threat to individual liberty and free-market economies, both in America and abroad.[1] ESG is regularly used by corporations and investors as a tool to impose values and environmental policies on other businesses, governments, families, and individuals. ESG has been widely adopted in recent years by corporations across the United States and […]