Trump’s Challenge to Free-Market Capitalism
Stakes in private companies. Handshake deals with chief executives. The president’s economic policy has drifted far from principles that long defined the Republican Party. Is it capitalism at all?
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Oren Cass Testifies Before House Foreign Affairs Committee
On January 14, American Compass chief economist Oren Cass appeared as a witness before the House Foreign Affairs Committee during their hearing titled Winning the AI Arms Race Against the Read more…
For Whom the Machine Toils
Making Technological Progress Work for Workers
Under ‘Chairman’ Trump, U.S. Takes Stakes in Private Industry
One year ago at the Economic Club of New York, Donald Trump confronted a roomful of businessmen and billionaires with a choice: Line up behind him and “freedom” in the Read more…
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.
Policy director Chris Griswold talks to Nikkei Asia
American Compass policy director Chris Griswold says businesses need greater trade and industrial predictability to plan for the future.
New Policy Brief Lays Out Path to Restoring U.S. Leadership in Critical Minerals
Using the Defense Production Act, America can break China’s grip on critical minerals supply chain
Restoring Leadership in Critical Minerals
Using the Defense Production Act to support U.S. critical mineral development
How Trump Can Rebuild America
The Conservative Case for Reindustrialization
How Trump Can Rebuild America
The conservative case for reindustrialization.
More Than Decline
What Trump’s second term could mean for a decimated industrial power.
Trump Can Bend Biden’s Industrial Policy To Suit Him
America appears on the cusp of an era of large-scale domestic investment in areas from semiconductors to energy
Here’s How the Return of American Industry Will Actually Look
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Industrial Policy’s Potential with Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher
Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher join Oren to discuss their forthcoming book on industrial policy.
Harris’s Global ‘Green New Deal’
The “Clean Energy Marshall Plan” is a lose-lose-lose for workers, industry, and developing nations
Is The U.S. Workforce Prepared to Reindustrialize?
Effective industrial policy will require changes to business as usual
Revisiting the CHIPS Act with Senator Todd Young
Sen. Todd Young joins Oren Cass to discuss the CHIPs Act and its implementation two years after its passage.
Chipping Away
Slowly but surely, American semiconductor policy is getting the job done. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.
The Sovereign and the CEO
The corporation operates at the pleasure of the public, which has not only the right, but also the obligation to constrain its power.
Unleash the Techno-Industrial State
How the United States government can advance scientific and technological progress.
