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What happens to personal data as the digital age deepens their quality, widens their availability, and creates new uses for them?

What happens to markets as the digital age improves their efficiency and introduces them to new domains?

American inequality is higher now than at any time since WWII. The gap is wide and getting wider. Read what the data show and why it matters.

A guide to what is happening in the semiconductor industry and how the U.S. fell behind its competitors in the global race for leadership.

This report provides a systematic, firm-level study of declining business investment and the shift among American corporation toward disgorging cash to shareholders.

A review of hedge fund and private equity performance through the COVID-19 market crash.

Archive of Returns Counter data as of Q1 2021

Comprehensive benchmarking of the hedge fund, private equity, and venture capital industries against public-market indexes, updated quarterly.

The American family may have entered a period of crisis, but a rich conservative literature—from political philosophy to sociology to journalism—can help us to better understand the root causes and guide policy reforms to the family’s renewal.

Writers and analysts from across the right-of-center apply a family-focused lens to contemporary policy challenges.

American attitudes about family structure vary widely, but most families see a full-time earner and a stay-at-home parent as the ideal arrangement for raising young children.

This paper presents the case for a per-child family benefit that would operate as a form of reciprocal social insurance paid only to working families.

Across all classes and regardless of parental status, 60 to 75% of Americans say that the government should do more to support families.

In its first year, American Compass is already recognized as the flagship for a healthier and more responsive post-Trump conservative movement, underscoring not only the void’s size and importance but our effectiveness in filling it.

Comprehensive benchmarking of the hedge fund, private equity, and venture capital industries against public-market indexes, updated quarterly.

Archive of Returns Counter data as of Q3 2020

A review of the latest developments in private finance and the latest update to the Returns Counter.

Four American companies demonstrate how to fulfill corporate obligations without sacrificing corporate performance.

Commentary on developments in private finance and the Coin-Flip Capitalism debate as of Q3 2020

A long-standing intellectual tradition offers not only a comprehensive critique of market fundamentalism and consumerism, but also a constructive path forward.