Facebook announces yet another half-baked-unleavened-semi-policy about deep fakes at CES. Samsung announces artificial humans (not to be confused with artificial intelligence). Impossible Whoppers are not for vegetarians (but are good for man boobs). And Matt makes sense of why boards and board chumminess matters.

Matt finds an upside in WWIII. Carlos Ghosn goes full Houdini, but Japan's "rule of law" may be the more troubling investor problem. Amazon pokes the employee bear. Netflix's secret sauce is also it's disadvantage. And Matt makes sense of McDonald's new push to change its corporate culture (hint: Boeing is involved).

It's the Roaring 20s, Part Deuce! And since everyone else has trends for the next year and/or decade, so do we at Business Pants, including: the #HeToo movement, Data Wars: Rise of Stakeholders, and AI xenophobia.

Matt rides solo to tell you that Boeing's CEO Dennis Muilenburg is NOT A THING anymore - David Calhoun is stepping in if he can navigate his five other jobs! Finally, Matt looks back at his life lessons from this year's Matt Makes, with important rules from Facebook, Ed Liddy, FedEx, Gap, and others.

Our Thursday massive bag of Biz Nuggets, including stories from Facebook, Google, unions, washing machines, the gender pay gap and climate change, and even the next generation of AI innovation: autonomous boards. Plus, Matt finally figures out why Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg still has a job.

Our deep dive on ESG Wednesday - why don't ESG ratings correlate to each exactly? Is there one ESG to rule them all? Plus, Investopedia has ESG among its most searched terms for 2019 next to Jay-Z and negative interest rates. Finally, Matt makes a rant about functional fixation with accounting and how it holds ESG back from investors doing their jobs.

Boeing's CEO Dennis Muilenburg STILL has a job even as production halts on 737 MAX planes could hurt the entire US economy. Plus, Uber's ex-CEO and Purdue Pharma's Sackler family cash out and Facebook still plays politics. Finally, Matt has fun with board member names.

Facebook loses its own employees' data... out of the trunk of a car... unencrypted! In other news, Facebook is confident about its ability to handle elections, security, harassment, bullying, and every other social ill (it's just a platform!). Also, a look back game of major tech scandals of the 2010s: one hit wonder, not a thing anymore, or still a thing going forward? Finally, a PwC survey suggests half of board members would vote out a fellow board member. Matt guesses who.

Aramco's IPO was the talk of the week - but we're wondering when investors will wake up and care that it's governed by a murderous, state owned royal family, contributes to the destruction of the planet, and you relinquish all your rights to get a piece of the action. Also, a huge pile of Biz Nuggets - under the fold business headlines in the absurd. Finally, Matt Makes a new weekly award to the company least likely to hire qualified black or Hispanic employees!

It's ESG Wednesday! Why? Why not! Stories on Starbucks, Intel, and diversity. Stories on executive pay and perks. And big dive into the new Intel diversity report, a first of its kind (potentially). Then, Matt Makes a plea: can we kill the ESG acronym? All ESG hopes to solve is transparency and survival, let's not get confused.