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Jill Stein (the Green Party nominee) invested in Chevron, Wells Fargo, Big Pharma

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Jill Stein Accused of Investing in Dirty Coal, Big Pharma | News | teleSUR English

According to an analysis of her financial disclosure form, the Green Party presidential candidate invests in Chevron and Wells Fargo Bank.
Green Party leader Jill Stein was accused of double standards Wednesday after a Daily Beast financial analysis found she has invested in the very industries her party opposes—coal, big pharma and Wall Street.

According to the financial disclosure form she filed with the United States Office of Government Ethics on March 30, 2016, and the first two pages of her 2015 federal tax return, Stein and her husband, Richard Roher have profited from investments in mutual funds that support big multinationals including Exxon, Chevron, JP Morgan Chase and Pfizer.

The presidential candidate, who has built an entire political platform on her opposition to corporate greed, environmental abuses and inequality, also owns direct stock investments in Merc, the pharmaceutical giant fined for over-billing Medicaid.

While Stein may profess to be against the Dakota Access pipeline, she has invested up to US $2.2 million in energy companies like Chevron, responsible for the disastrous oil spill in the Ecuadorean Amazon rainforest, via the Vanguard 500 FUND.

The Green Party leader is also a vocal opponent of Wall Street yet her investment portfolio shows she has up to US$2.65 million invested in funds such as the TIAA-CREF Equity Index, which has significant holdings in Wells Fargo Bank, an international banking firm accused of abusing U.S. whistleblowing laws and funding the Dakota Access pipeline.

Stein, however, is not the only U.S. politician to come under attack for investing in questionable stocks. President Barack Obama and Senator Ted Cruz have also been forced to divest from fund investments for conflict of interests.


LMFAO
 
Vanguard funds invest in a bunch of different blue chip stocks. They are a great tool for ppl who don't want to spend thousands of hours doing research on individual stocks. How is this news or even an issue?
 
An ideologue ought to take the time to look at what they're doing. Moreover, it's an indictment of the simplistic, neo-Luddite way that the Green bourgeois Left approaches environmental issues, which are inextricably bound to economic ones.

Let me add that I loathe the Green Party, and I'm way to the Left of their official platform. They're a breeding ground for the worst tendencies of the bourgeois Left - anti-vaccination, Luddism, crystal gazing, "alternative medicine" and the like.

If any of you guys are absolutely insistent on voting for a Leftist third party this year, please make it one of the socialist sects and not this absolute fraud of an outfit.

(The best green energy is nuclear energy!)
 
Vanguard funds invest in a bunch of different blue chip stocks. They are a great tool for ppl who don't want to spend thousands of hours doing research on individual stocks. How is this news or even an issue?

It boils down to a money where their mouths are issue.

If they have funds to invest then someone like Jill Stein (and/or her husband) could have ensured it was guided to funds, investment vehicles, and indexes that do not directly invest in the industries (or market segments) where she has political adversarial views towards.

In this case it is news worthy as Jill Stein will take a stand against an oil line because of a cause, then make money off the same industry (perhaps even some of the same groups that benefit from increased oil movement infrastructure.)

I'll stipulate it is all a bit argumentative, but you would think a "green party" candidate would control more wisely where their investments are making money.
 
The people that say government subsidies for Planed Parenthood is Constitutional would say that her behavior is ethical.

Stop posting from the toilet; you're splashing.
 
Stop posting from the toilet; you're splashing.

You mean by that that you do not even see the logic? Or is it only that you do not know the circumstances of the reference?
 

Oh, that's such a pitiful criticism. Anyone who invests in just about any mutual fund has a partial investment in an energy company or pharmaceutical.

Trump has been critical of Ford and other companies moving their factories to a foreign country. Yet, if Trump has investments in a mutual fund, that mutual fund may well own shares of Ford and those other companies.

That's the investment world. If something is part of the stock market, a person likely invests in those companies if they invest in diversified mutual funds. DUH. This is true of EVERYONE...Clinton, Trump, Bush, Scott Walker, Rubio, Christie, etc.

We, the people, don't decide what companies make up the S&P or the Nasdaq or the Dow. This is a ridiculous argument. Besides, has she ever said she thinks those companies should go out of business? Probably not. She probably objects to PART of their business.

Silly, childish argument. Sounds like you're desperate.
 
An ideologue ought to take the time to look at what they're doing. Moreover, it's an indictment of the simplistic, neo-Luddite way that the Green bourgeois Left approaches environmental issues, which are inextricably bound to economic ones.

Let me add that I loathe the Green Party, and I'm way to the Left of their official platform. They're a breeding ground for the worst tendencies of the bourgeois Left - anti-vaccination, Luddism, crystal gazing, "alternative medicine" and the like.

If any of you guys are absolutely insistent on voting for a Leftist third party this year, please make it one of the socialist sects and not this absolute fraud of an outfit.

(The best green energy is nuclear energy!)

I fully support the Green Party's platform. Unfortunately, we have a two party system.

But the OP is a silly, juvenile post. Every sector of business in the world is part of the stock market. When anyone invests in teh stock market, they by default invest in the companies making up the stock market. This has nothing to do with whether one approves of every business practice of every company.

You no doubt have issues with some companies. Yet, if you invest in mutual funds, you probably are invested in those companies.

Also, being critical of lines of business of a company does not mean one wants the company to go out of business. Silly and juvenile argument.
 
The people that say government subsidies for Planed Parenthood is Constitutional would say that her behavior is ethical.

Assistance for health care for poor people is constitutional. To say otherwise is a false statement. Objectively speaking.
 
It boils down to a money where their mouths are issue.

If they have funds to invest then someone like Jill Stein (and/or her husband) could have ensured it was guided to funds, investment vehicles, and indexes that do not directly invest in the industries (or market segments) where she has political adversarial views towards.

In this case it is news worthy as Jill Stein will take a stand against an oil line because of a cause, then make money off the same industry (perhaps even some of the same groups that benefit from increased oil movement infrastructure.)

I'll stipulate it is all a bit argumentative, but you would think a "green party" candidate would control more wisely where their investments are making money.

That's silly. Any large mutual fund invests in some company a person might have some issue with. It's virtually impossible to invest in the stock market without investing in companies one might disapprove of in some respect. It's virtually impossible to make a good return for one's future without investing in the stock market.

She didn't decide which companies go in the mutual funds. And she didn't say she wanted any company to go out of business. She has issues with some business practices.

One of the biggest funds for investing in is the Vanguard S&P fund. It contains all of the stocks in the S&P (about 500 of them), and all of the big companies in every sector in the country.

The OP argument is something a child would say, since a child wouldn't understand the stock market.

To invest in a fund that invests in the energy sector does not mean the investor approves of the current energy policy in the country.
 
That's silly. Any large mutual fund invests in some company a person might have some issue with. It's virtually impossible to invest in the stock market without investing in companies one might disapprove of in some respect. It's virtually impossible to make a good return for one's future without investing in the stock market.

She didn't decide which companies go in the mutual funds. And she didn't say she wanted any company to go out of business. She has issues with some business practices.

One of the biggest funds for investing in is the Vanguard S&P fund. It contains all of the stocks in the S&P (about 500 of them), and all of the big companies in every sector in the country.

The OP argument is something a child would say, since a child wouldn't understand the stock market.

To invest in a fund that invests in the energy sector does not mean the investor approves of the current energy policy in the country.

Which is why I added in the "I'll stipulate it is all a bit argumentative" bit. You are taking issue with the wrong person here.

That said, there are other investment options that can exclude a market segment such as Energy (in the traditional sense, such as oil and natural gas.) It may not be easy, and it may not give the best returns against the S&P but they do exist. I know, I worked in the oil and natural gas speculation and commodities markets for years before getting back into business software solutions.
 
An ideologue ought to take the time to look at what they're doing. Moreover, it's an indictment of the simplistic, neo-Luddite way that the Green bourgeois Left approaches environmental issues, which are inextricably bound to economic ones.

Let me add that I loathe the Green Party, and I'm way to the Left of their official platform. They're a breeding ground for the worst tendencies of the bourgeois Left - anti-vaccination, Luddism, crystal gazing, "alternative medicine" and the like.

If any of you guys are absolutely insistent on voting for a Leftist third party this year, please make it one of the socialist sects and not this absolute fraud of an outfit.

(The best green energy is nuclear energy!)

No, no it is not. Something that produces waste that mankind cannot be near for the rest of humankind... not green.
 
Vanguard funds invest in a bunch of different blue chip stocks. They are a great tool for ppl who don't want to spend thousands of hours doing research on individual stocks. How is this news or even an issue?

It's not.

But I would like to know who created the story.
 
It is a fair criticism but I also don't see it as being a major concern. It is ok to profit from the system while at the same time trying to change it.
 
Assistance for health care for poor people is constitutional. To say otherwise is a false statement. Objectively speaking.

Nobody said it wasn't. But that wasn't the question, as you full well knew. Objectively speaking.
 
Nobody said it wasn't. But that wasn't the question, as you full well knew. Objectively speaking.

I was responding to your post that said:
Quote Originally Posted by joG View Post
The people that say government subsidies for Planed Parenthood is Constitutional would say that her behavior is ethical.

Your statement implies that govt subsidies (funding) for assistance for poor people, particularly women, is unconstitutional. So I was setting the record straight: It is constitutional.
 
I was responding to your post that said:


Your statement implies that govt subsidies (funding) for assistance for poor people, particularly women, is unconstitutional. So I was setting the record straight: It is constitutional.

That is a widely used euphemism you are employing, but a false argument. Do you see, wherein the falsehood lies?
 
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