No Alternative Assets in Tax-Advantaged Retirement Accounts
Should individual savers have access to alternative assets like private equity funds and cryptocurrency in tax-advantaged retirement accounts?
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A Grand Strategy of Reciprocity
How to Build an Economic and Security Order That Works for America
This Is the Moment We Find Out if Trump Is for Real
It’s the next stage, however, that will define Mr. Trump’s legacy: Can he and his administration move past the demolition, clear the debris and, well, build back better?
Trump’s reversal on AI chips is a historic blunder
A short-term profit grab risks eroding America’s biggest advantage in the AI race.
Trump’s immigration agenda follows the trade template — for good and ill
Long-term frameworks are necessary to lock in the desired effects of the US administration’s most controversial policies.
How true populists should think about Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’
There is a position between the old Republican guard and budget fairyland.
Tariffs are a bet on the free market rather than free trade
Innovation has stalled in a globalised era dominated by state-sponsored national champions.
Founder’s Letter: Consensus, Building
Oren Cass reflects on five years of American Compass’s contributions as part of the 2024 Annual Report.
Europe Must Choose Between America and China
In a multi-polar world, old certainties about the US security guarantee and access to markets no longer hold.
Trade Deals in the Time of Tariffs
The reciprocal levies aimed at allies have been paused for 90 days, now what?
Stop Freaking Out. Trump’s Tariffs Can Still Work.
Last week’s “Liberation Day” marked a kind of D-Day in the effort to reorder the international economic system.
Beware America’s fake fiscal conservatives
Republicans are indulging in budgetary chicanery in order to preserve Trump’s tax cuts.
In Search Of The Invisible Hand
Adam Smith’s capitalism demands constraints on markets, not blind faith in them.
Why DOGE Will Fail
There isn’t an ‘easy button’ for everything.
The Fringe Cause That Could Derail the Republican Agenda
The Right’s “groups” could destroy the Trump agenda.
Trump’s Tariff Whiplash
Six reactions to the new administration’s aggressive trade diplomacy.
Is Our Children Learning? Apparently Not.
Plus, Sam Altman as ShamWow Guy, and more from this week…
The One Thing You Should Be Reading This Week, and Every Week
A brief departure from our standard Friday format…
Notes from an Inauguration
Or, the Canadian Girlfriend Theory of Executive Power
Optimism But Not Confidence as Trump Takes Control
From infrastructure spending to relations with China, uncertainty reigns.
