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Joe Bidenās chips choices undermine bipartisan industrial initiatives
The White House is discrediting its promotion of domestic semiconductor production by linking it to childcare
The Undeniable Success of Israeli Industrial Policy
A prominent public role in R&D, business subsidies, and restrictions that keep both knowledge and production within our borders are not incompatible with rapid economic growth and technological progress.
How Industrial Policy Made the Desert Bloom
A case study on the public investments behind the Israeli economic miracle
Keeping Up with the Jones Act
American Compass policy advisor Gabriela Rodriguez discusses the Jones Act, shipping and supply chains, and striking a balance between national security and consumer interests.
Policy Brief: Local Content Requirements
Spur private investment, innovation, and competition by guaranteeing demand for domestic production
Talkinā (Policy) Shop: Local Content Requirements
On this episode of Policy in Brief, Oren and Chris discuss how to spur private investment, innovation, and competition by guaranteeing demand for domestic production
Myth-Busting Silicon Valley
American Compass’s Wells King argues that Silicon Valleyās founder myth has things backward, misunderstanding the source of the regimeās power and flattering its worst instincts.
Silicon Valleyās Public Garages
The indispensable and effective role of public policy in building the digital age
American Compass Releases Conservative Economic Agenda for 118th Congress
Today, American Compass is releasingĀ New Direction: Conservative Principles & Policies for the 118thĀ Congress,Ā an agenda for economic renewal, focused on the interests of worker, their families and communities, and the nation.
Uncle Samās Top-Performing Venture Fund
With the Small Business InnovationĀ & Research program, Congress helped build many of the nation’s most innovative firms.
The American Camry
Wells King and Dan Vaughn, Jr. on howĀ Reagan showed it was possible to wrangle foreign manufacturers to the U.S.
The Import Quota that Remade the Auto Industry
President Reagan negotiated a quota on Japanese imports that bought Detroit time to retool and spurred massive foreign investment in a new manufacturing base in the South.
State Capacity in Short Supply: Assessing the Biden Administrationās Industrial Strategy
American Compassās Wells King and Chris Griswold evaluate the Biden administrationās approach to industrial strategy and what it shows about the policy failures of the established ruling class.
The Chips Act Debate Shows How Far the Republicans Have Moved
FINANCIAL TIMESāOren Cass argues that conservative interest in rebuilding Americaās industrial base may finally be overtaking free-market fundamentalism on the right.
The Problem Joe Manchin Highlighted Is Crucial for Americaās Future
Oren Cass makes the case for serious permitting reform, without which it will take years to spend any money building climate-related projects, costing us money and harming the environment.
American Compass on CHIPS Act Passage: An Inflection Point in U.S. Policy
PRESS RELEASEāAmerica is finally getting serious aboutĀ returningĀ critical industries to our shores.
Republicans Split on Major China Bill, as Legislation Barrels Toward Passage
As the Senate takes up consideration of the CHIPS Act, American Compassās work is leading the industrial policy debate.
Pass the CHIPS, Please
Restrictions on investment in China are a good idea, to be sure. The taller and stronger the guardrails, the better. But holding incentives for domestic investment hostage to tougher restrictions on foreign investment may not be wise or necessary, for two reasons.
The New Age of Interventionismāthe Big State Is Back in Business
American Compass executive director Oren Cass joins the Money Talks podcast to discuss the growing embrace of industrial policy.
