All right, conservatives have been cheering lately saying that if you go woke, you go broke.

Here's the problem.

That actually hasn't been true technically.

But it could be very soon.

And we're going to explain why.

And it might not be the explanation you were expecting.

All of that coming up on this episode.

I think you all will be very interested in this discussion

today. And thank you for joining us. If you haven't already, go to the description of this

podcast. Join us on Volley. We'd love to chat about this with you after the show. So I had someone

remind me that I have not done introductions the last few episodes. So I'm going to do that again.

As always, I'm your host, Nick Freitas, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, but other than that, a reasonably okay guy. With us is my beautiful

bright Tina, Queen of the Bees. Hello, everyone. We have our resident historian and political

prognosticator Christian Heinz. Hello. And then, of course, our producer of producers,

Nicholas Hamilton, the good Hamilton, the one that doesn't like central banking, which is going to be pretty important for this episode. It is. Thank you, Nick. I got a question. Oh, do you? Can you explain for me and the audience

what ESG is? Gosh, I'm so glad you asked since it's like right on the title of the episode. All right.

Wow, that definitely wasn't a planted question. What are you talking about? That was purely random. How dare you?

All right.

So we got our first article here, and I brought this up.

It's from Foundation for Economic Education, which, by the way, I think is a great organization.

And they talk about the rise and reign of ESGs.

So what ESG stands for is environmental, social, and corporate governance. So the way to think about this is you have these large investment firms. Sometimes you could have governments or whatnot.

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