Whether you love business news or feel like you’re supposed to know it but hate it, Business Pants is business news for humans. Snarky and irreverent, deeply researched and factual, a podcast devoted to market quirks and the humans that make up companies. Investing isn’t a what, it’s a who.
MONDAY KETCHUP: Top ten including Public Square SPACs itself, billionaire mental health, and Zaslovian Venmo requests, plus board member of the week from UPS
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Neumann's upfail, Activision deal, Ramaswamy buys ESG stocks, and ESG MONTH: roundup of 18 conservative law proposals on ESG!
MONDAY KETCHUP: Threads > ChatGPT, Musk manboys Zuck, Ant Group's fine, restaurant bill healthcare surcharge, and Director of the Week from Free Float Analytics
FRIDAY WRAP: Supreme suckage, cars get their knobs back, Leo DiCaprio is our trusted scientist, Carnival superpollutes, conservative safe spaces, Threads, and Larry Fink stops the ESG
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Massive woke headline catchup, plus we define anti-woke methodology at last
FRIDAY WRAP: The technically challenged edition, but our platform launched, Musk still sucks, AB InBev still sucks, and PFAS still suck
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Directors get analyzed in the alternative democracy, and Morningstar makes anti-woke pillars
JUNETEENTH DATA: Black board directors and the gaps of power
FRIDAY WRAP: ESG Ratings will be a B one day, your delivery driver is about to smell less gross, beer is still gay, and Comcast still sucks
FILL IN THE BLANK: BLANK CEO pay soars despite company being "not good enough", BLANK is new best selling US beer that also is LGTBQ friendly, and more
WOKE WEDNESDAY: EU Regulates ESG Ratings, EU regulates ESG data, EU regulates ESG philosophy, plus US bans ESG and shareholders sucks at ESG
MONDAY KETCHUP: Nepo Soros is antiwoke catnip, JPM settles Epstein, Icahn win-loses at Illumina, and diversity isn't a body count (STUDY)
FRIDAY WRAP: Zaslav says responsibility, the Supreme Court gets woke, the anti-woke realize things five years later, and Zuck's pedophile network
CONSUMER DECISIONS SERIES: Using ESG Data to Buy Stuff
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Nerdy ESG Headlines and Our Alternative Democracy
MONDAY KETCHUP: CNN's CEO is sorry, Activision Blizzard isn't sorry, Twitter's loses more "safety", and director's and political ideology
FRIDAY WRAP: Chick-fil-A ends the woke wars, Congress ends a debt staring contest, Bobby Kotick comes home, eating disorder chatbots, and fast fashion is back
THE BAD GOOD GAME: AI will take your eating disorder helpline calls, Zuck gets shredded, buy-now-pay
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Nerdy ESG headlines and a monthly Woke Police Blotter with corporate arrests for public wokeness
CORPORATE THEATER: Woke Company or Not Woke Company?
FRIDAY WRAP: O'Reilly Automotive's DEF14A orange jumpsuits, Twitter can't handle rubber band watermelons, Ken Paxton forget the "G" in ESG, and Musk's censorshippy-ness
WHO THE EFF IS THAT?: Board members, in the headlines but no - Sir Andrew Mackenzie, Bill Helman IV, Grace Puma, Anne Mulcahy, John Hennessy
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Aviation CEOs announce things, Ron DeSantis manufactured the woke mind virus, Target's less proud of pride, and a AGM proxy vote sports roundup
This week on the show we take a look under Elon Musk’s drippy umbrella: an infomercial selling stolen audio from Tesla automobiles, a press conference announcing the arrival of Twitter’s new CEO, and an op-ed on Twitter’s blue check policy.
MONDAY KETCHUP: Exxon goes woke, AB Inbev's loses perfect LGBT rating, Meta's out $1.3bn, and Board Sabermetrics succession planning at Morgan Stanley and Lazard
FRIDAY WRAP: Montana bans everything, Target's DEI growth fuel, billionaire Chuck Johnson's clam war, Florida investigates teachers, winners and predictions
BIZ NUGGETS: Board approves 200 condiment combinations, DEI fueled.. growth?, climate and/or HVAC concerned Millennials, Montana's anti-GHG law, and Exxon says people WANT climate change
ANTI-WOKE WEDNESDAY: The Committee to Unleash the ESG at the National Public Policy Center's woke WSJ editorial's board's leftist National Legal and Policy... WTF, the anti-woke are exhausting...
MONDAY KETCHUP: Yaccarino's first tweet, Peloton's CEO raise, Dan Snyder sells, Sam Altman now wants your eyeballs, and NERD ALERT: the effect of high performers bailing
