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China Challenge Is Too Much for Republican Market Fundamentalism
Defeat on outward-bound investment legislation shows significant change in the party
Issues 2024: Wall Street
For the American economy to boom again, financial markets will have to return to their proper role promoting productive investment.
This Conservative Wants to Change the Way Republicans Think About Economics
In an extended New York Times interview, Oren Cass discusses the importance of labor to conservative economics.
Men’s Realism
The masculinity crisis is serious but most solutions on offer are not
American Compass and Heritage Foundation Lead Coalition Letter Urging Outbound Investment Restrictions
FY24 NDAA should maintain disclosure requirements and restrict U.S. capital flows to China
Coalition Letter: Outbound Investment Restrictions
As the FY2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) moves through conference committee, we write to urge Congress’s support for security-related restrictions on outbound investment of American capital to the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
The Credit Card Competition Act Will Help Support a Stronger, More Competitive Free Market
Congress should take seriously the failures in the credit card industry and consider how public policy could support a stronger and more competitive free market.
Issues 2024: Industrial Policy
A strong industrial base is vital to workers and their communities, the rate of technological and economic progress, and national security.
The Receding Democratic Majority
Demography may be destiny, but its party affiliation is not
Big Tech Is Exploiting Kids Online. Congress Has To Step In
Chris Griswold makes the case for protecting children online through the Kids Online Safety Act
Republicans Are Misremembering Their Record of ‘Fiscal Discipline’
If conservatism is to regain its footing, the New Right will need better solutions than what Trump has offered. But a return to what came before him is no solution at all.
New Collection: Supply-Side Economics Beyond Tax Cuts
Long-term analysis shows the ineffectiveness of the Bush and Trump tax cuts
Learning the Lessons of Supply-Side Economics
Conservatives should bring supply-side thinking to issues beyond business investment
Rebuilding the Supply-Side Platform
Boosting American investment and production when tax cuts will not
The Curse of Voodoo Economics
Conservatives should favor limited government, not reflexive tax cuts
A Walk on the Supply Side
Moving Pro-Growth Economics Beyond Tax Cuts
Why Trump Is Right About Tariffs
Taxing imported goods is unpopular with economists, but it could help the U.S. lower the trade deficit, strengthen its industrial base and safeguard national security.
New Issues 2024 Brief Examines Decline in Worker Power and its Economic Impacts
American Compass today released a new policy brief as part of its Issues 2024 series highlighting the importance of worker power and its decline over the past half century.
Issues 2024: Worker Power
For 50 years, businesses have been finding ways to succeed while offering fewer secure jobs to American workers, leading to surging growth and profits while wages stagnated.
