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A review of the latest developments in the private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund sectors.

Could a recent data breach finally turn auto dealers against Wall Street?

The credit card industry is gouging small business with swipe fees, claiming it’s doing so to help working-class Americans.

WSJ’s Brody Mullins joins Oren to discuss his new book, The Wolves of K Street, about corporate power and the rise of the lobbying industry.

For the American economy to boom again, financial markets will have to return to their proper role promoting productive investment.

Surveying the wreckage from Wall Street’s collision with emergency services

Sen. J.D. Vance and Oren Cass discuss what has gone wrong with investment in the American economy and how conservatives should think about labor unions today.

Oren Cass responds to the Cato Institute’s Norbert Michel misguided critique of American Compass’s financialization research.

Ban stock buybacks and repeal business interest deductibility

The market failure is that market actors are fallible and their efforts at pursuing their own interests do not necessarily lead smoothly to efficient outcomes that serve themselves or the common good.

On this episode, Oren Cass and Chris Griswold discuss the need for transparent reporting requirements for public pension funds.

Require transparency in management of public money

Oren Cass is joined by private equity expert Steven Kaplan to discuss leveraged buyouts, bankruptcy, and the effects on workers.

On this episode of Policy in Brief, Oren and Chris take a look at the damage done to workers and local communities when businesses go bankrupt and propose reforms to better align risk and reword.

Put workers ahead of Wall Street
when firms go bankrupt

“Bad competitiveness” results in weakening demand, which either reduces global production or requires surging debt to maintain demand and production at its existing level. Perhaps that rings a bell, because it is the world we live in.

Free international trade is not a vital tenet of liberty in the American tradition; it was adopted, in Burtka’s words, “for the worst reasons and delivered the worst results.”