{"id":1639324,"date":"2022-09-12T14:23:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639324"},"modified":"2022-09-12T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T18:23:25","slug":"at-natcon-a-populist-libertarian-clash-on-esg-investment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-natcon-a-populist-libertarian-clash-on-esg-investment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"At NatCon, a Populist\u2013Libertarian Clash on ESG Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fat-natcon-a-populist-libertarian-clash-on-esg-investment-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639324&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>&#8216;Do any of you guys consider the United States to be anything but a vehicle for making money?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise that the environmental, social, and governance (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-esg\">ESG<\/a>) investment movement was a topic at the third National Conservatism Conference in greater Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Experts on a Sept. 11 ESG panel wondered aloud whether the letters actually stand for \u201cevil, stupidity, and grift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s probably all three, by the way,\u201d said Justin Danhof of Strive Asset Management, an ESG alternative led by Vivek Ramaswamy.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, a more surprising question from a well-known audience member drew out real tensions in the room between national populists and more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-libertarian\">libertarian<\/a> voices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo any of you guys consider the United States to be anything but a vehicle for making money?\u201d asked audience member Amanda Milius, director of \u201cThe Plot Against the President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Amanda-Milius-photo-1200x675-1.jpg\"><\/a> Amanda Milius, director of \u201cThe Plot Against the President\u201d and former State Department official. (Courtesy of Amanda Milius) <\/p>\n<p>She questioned whether the United States actually has a free market, saying that conservative movies like her own face an uphill battle to secure funding despite the large audience for them.<\/p>\n<p>One of Milius\u2019s apparent targets, businessman Andy Puzder, said he was \u201ccertainly supportive\u201d of more patriotic and moral movies.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, he argued that voters could change things by electing politicians who will alter the legal landscape\u2014for example, by passing more aggressive disclosure requirements aimed at revealing when products or components are made in China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you get to what American companies should be doing or shouldn\u2019t be doing, you vote with every dollar that you spend,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Theo Wold, a former staffer in the Trump administration\u2019s Office of Innovation, argued that corporate America undercuts efforts to force transparency through their influence over the political process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea that consumers demand\u2014consumers don\u2019t even know. 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