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After a year of empty promises from CEOs, a Left-Right coalition propose a framework for substantive action

After a year of empty promises from CEOs, the groups propose a framework for substantive action.

Senator Josh Hawley talks with American Compass executive director Oren Cass about the empty platitudes and hypocrisy of “woke capital” and why conservatives must work to prioritize the needs of workers and families in their economic policy agenda.

Business leaders have lost contact with the communities and institutions that might hold them accountable, escaped from the oversight and regulation that would channel their activities, and proven themselves shameless in the face of whatever weak standards of decency the culture still attempts to muster.

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

Good jobs benefit workers and boost corporate performance, so why aren’t there more of them?

Senator Josh Hawley talks with American Compass executive director Oren Cass about the empty platitudes and hypocrisy of “woke capital” and why conservatives must work to prioritize the needs of workers and families in their economic policy agenda.

Holding corporations accountable for their obligations to workers, their families and communities, and the nation.

American Compass’s Oren Cass debates University of Chicago professor Todd Henderson over the question, “Does the private equity industry create substantial social value?”

How should businesses balance shareholder interests with obligations to their workers, communities, and nation?

How should businesses balance shareholder interests with obligations to their workers, communities, and nation?

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

How should businesses balance shareholder interests with obligations to their workers, communities, and nation?

How should businesses balance shareholder interests with obligations to their workers, communities, and nation?

Patrick Deneen and Andy Puzder debate the obligations of business.

How should businesses balance shareholder interests with obligations to their workers, communities, and nation?

The Wall Street Journal’s defense of private equity (“Populists Don’t Know Much About Private Equity”) is an impressionist masterpiece of market fundamentalism, relying on the unexamined assumption that fees paid to private-equity partners represent “social value.” One can simply step back and gawk in amazement, but true appreciation requires poring over each brushstroke.

Grant Kettering’s critique of Coin-Flip Capitalism defends private finance as “a major competitive advantage and source of comprehensive national power.”

Imagine a schoolteacher in a mid-sized American city. She earns approximately $60,000 per year and each month contributes somewhere between 6 and 12 percent of her wages to the state’s public employee pension plan. Given her salary and associated living expenses, a robust personal savings plan seems out of the question. For the teacher – and the firefighter, the police officer, and many other public employees – pension benefits are the only hope for financial security in retirement.