Business Pants

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Business News #55

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.

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Recent Episodes
  • Andrew Witty gets paid, steps down, stays on, John R Tyson sucks at his job, gets board seat, and other nuggets
    May 13, 2025 – 00:22:05
  • Proxy firm fight at Harley, CEO Pope names, Zuck’s people replacement plan, Tyson names Tysons to board
    May 9, 2025 – 00:55:28
  • Kohl’s romantic CEO, Meta’s pony tail fetish, CEO pay confusion, and Goldman hates the word “black”
    May 6, 2025 – 00:57:47
  • Blame game: Amazon’s tariffs, ChatGPT’s personality, Starbucks’ union negotiation, Novavax’s new board member
    Apr 29, 2025 – 00:45:07
  • Business Roundtable wants to end shareholder proposals, Subaru’s knobs, OpenAI hate humans, and Ralph Lauren’s line of 2x4s
    Apr 25, 2025 – 00:51:03
  • ICYMI: Baby boys want all the energy and books, Google/Meta lawsuits, and shareholders cower before Exxon
    Apr 23, 2025 – 01:12:36
  • Sam Altman says Miyazaki should get over it, AI vs A1, and Zuck testifies
    Apr 16, 2025 – 00:39:49
  • Adverbs are bad, tariffs are bigly, Enron’s desk gets pardoned, cybertruck flipoff metrics
    Apr 7, 2025 –
  • CEO chokes, Trump’s tariff penguins, ESG needs a spine, chicken nuggets, and Starbuck at Heritage
    Apr 4, 2025 – 01:03:15
  • France is for DEI, Primark CEO #MeToo, Tesla rage, Fink’s new-old letter, and Bill Burr needs a job at ISS
    Apr 1, 2025 – 00:51:33
  • Nikola investors lose, climate targets accelerate, oil execs buy Teslas, and ISS can’t find ANYTHING WRONG at BP
    Mar 28, 2025 – 00:59:06
  • Who to blame: Hormel’s CEO search, “eat now pay later”, DOI vs. DEI, and Signal’s woke board
    Mar 25, 2025 – 00:58:52
  • Tesla neglect, Musk’s hurt feelings, anti-woke boohoos, and Ben & Jerry’s mission governance
    Mar 21, 2025 – 01:08:43
  • Jamie Dimon says death to ISS, billionaire snowflakes, board burnout, CEOs feel “stuck” by Trump
    Mar 18, 2025 – 00:46:31
  • ISS’s Disney flip flop, EPA sells cars now, OpenAI demands no guardrails, and CEOs get $$$
    Mar 14, 2025 – 00:57:19
  • Conservative snowflake word policing, illegal to boycott Tesla, Qantas’ chair, and nepobaby merit in Biz Nuggets
    Mar 11, 2025 – 00:29:57
  • Kroger’s CEO fired, State Street’s ESG loss, meritocracy is fake, and corporate blame games
    Mar 7, 2025 – 00:54:55
  • GOOD GAME: ESG is now “resilience”, Kroger’s CEO leaves, Tesla owners hate Musk, State Street loves nominating committees
    Mar 4, 2025 – 00:48:35
  • The WWEification of the US, Capital One’s keeping the interest, and DEI “wins” at Apple
    Feb 28, 2025 – 01:03:25
  • Blame Game: Buffett’s genetic skill, United Health’s shareholder pushback, JPM Dimon’s flip floppery
    Feb 25, 2025 – 00:58:41
  • The joke of meritocracy, unhalted engagements at Blackrock, and Coca-Cola's DEI double down
    Feb 21, 2025 – 00:47:39
  • Blackrock and Vanguard “pause” corporate meetings, SEC’s boardroom power shift in the sarcastic Good Game
    Feb 19, 2025 – 00:41:03
  • Goldman: DEI has “served its purpose”, ISS: no DEI “factors”, and passive investors: stop proxy voting
    Feb 14, 2025 – 00:46:18
  • BIZ NUGGETS: ISS’s gender/race pivot, plastic straws, Disney’s DEI backpeddle, and WFH with a helicopter
    Feb 12, 2025 – 00:29:13
  • Musk’s DOGE is an investor problem, make the anti-DEI movement measure merit, and nanoplastic teaspoons
    Feb 7, 2025 – 00:54:58
  • Who do you blame? WF’s Scharf’s pay raise, Target’s DEI drop, Ryder’s governance fail, Walgreen’s stock plunge
    Feb 4, 2025 – 00:41:52
  • Deepseek’s $30 AI, negative ESG news is a buying opportunity, and the suckup economy
    Feb 1, 2025 – 00:44:37
  • GOOD GAME: Deepseek vs. tech manbabies, Blackrock vs. Tennessee, Dimon vs. the anti-DEI
    Jan 28, 2025 – 00:45:57
  • DEI and manflakes, CEO pay hikes, Microsoft reforests, Air Products, Will Hild’s a middle schooler, and cheese
    Jan 24, 2025 – 01:03:26
  • The American Oligarchs, alpha male cosplaying tech bros, TikTok and the US company China Threat, and retiring DEI
    Jan 17, 2025 – 00:57:47
  • NUGGETS: “Retiring” DEI, Meta’s masculine energy, meritocracy of Dana White, CEO replaced by CEO, and activist action
    Jan 14, 2025 – 00:35:32
  • 2025 Predictions: goodbye shareholder rights, the anti DEI movements wins (and loses), and woke retail zones
    Jan 10, 2025 – 01:01:00
  • Costco vs. racist investors, tech bro victimhood, Altman cries, and Zuck sucks up
    Jan 8, 2025 – 00:51:25
  • 2024 News of the Year
    Dec 20, 2024 – 01:10:01
  • Walmart’s award, E.L.F.’s award, and the real top 100 methodology
    Dec 17, 2024 – 00:44:58
  • Witty’s op-ed, billionaire permitting, Murdoch loses
    Dec 13, 2024 – 00:55:35
  • Health care fallout, plus the 100 Most Powerful People in Business dissected
    Dec 10, 2024 – 01:04:17
  • An NEO murder, Musk’s pay re-re-reversal, a woke lawsuit for BLK, and corporate cowardice
    Dec 6, 2024 – 00:54:22
  • A Portrait in Corporate Patriotism with Greg Penner of Walmart, plus a game that gives thanks
    Nov 26, 2024 – 00:41:02
  • FRIDAY WRAP: WWE government, Jaguar and the non-US anti-woke movement, airline CEO blowhards
    Nov 22, 2024 – 00:55:56
  • Get surprised: Bakkt acquisition, investors love Air Products’ board, Vanguard’s 4 for 1 policies, and KFC China CEO’s weird fetish
    Nov 19, 2024 – 00:36:41
  • FRIDAY WRAP: Meritocracy RIP, Jamie Dimon’s governance take, missing 8K at Tesla, and Kraft Heinz’s bad week
    Nov 15, 2024 – 00:56:19
  • “Your body, my choice”, billionaires want you to have their babies, and a 4 year “skip Trump” cruise
    Nov 12, 2024 – 00:43:25
  • FRIDAY WRAP: Did accountability die in capital markets? Plus, CEOs win, climate passes, and monkeys escape
    Nov 8, 2024 – 00:50:08
  • Who would you elect? Zuck vs. John Arnold, Boeing now vs. Boeing before, driving a Tesla vs. driving anything, and Howard, Susan, or Peter Buffett
    Nov 5, 2024 – 00:32:48
  • TERRIFYING: 23andMe’s board, “dangerously cold” ice cream, and the governance US election
    Oct 29, 2024 – 00:50:43
  • FRIDAY WRAP: McDonald’s had a week, Southwest’s board “shakeup”, Boeing’s board get sued, and Techno Optimism revisited
    Oct 25, 2024 – 00:41:19
  • POP QUIZ: Roblox, female leadership, HSBC’s glass cliff CFO, and Jana vs. Lamb Weston’s econ majors
    Oct 22, 2024 – 00:42:47
  • FRIDAY WRAP: CVS’s board coup, Zuck’s firing spree, and “social independence” board fines
    Oct 18, 2024 – 00:49:33
  • THE GOOD GAME: EV sales are UP, E.L.F.’s “Not So White Paper”, GSK’s $2.3bn settlement, Musk confuses Vegas
    Oct 15, 2024 – 00:34:10
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