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

Confusion over the nature of investment is pervasive among economic policymakers and commentators, has bled into the popular culture, and threatens the nation’s future prosperity.

Now is the time to say that in defense of innocent life there is no stutter in “from conception to natural death.”

There is no price tag that could be placed on those cherished times. Do our nation’s think tanks consider those moments when devising policy?

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.

Senator Mitt Romney joins us for a conversation about what draws him to family benefits, why he thinks conservatives should embrace the Family Security Act’s approach, how he sees this debate fitting into the broader one about the right-of-center’s future.

Jonah Goldberg, Cliff Asness Chair in Applied Liberty at the American Enterprise Institute, had a lot to say about American Compass on a recent podcast.

A conversation with Senator Mitt Romney about the future of family benefits in the U.S. and what it means for the right-of-center’s future.

The New Right, which stands for nothing if not resuscitating a long-moribund communitarian- and nationalism-inspired strand of conservative thought, is not per se “illiberal.”

My American Dream feels stolen, like I purchased it with the blood of brothers and enemies.

As hard as it is to believe, there was a time – before the New Deal – when economists were largely treated like any other interest group, occasionally saying something interesting, but usually ignored by policymakers.

Abby McCloskey highlights American Compass’s Fisc proposal in her column on child allowances.

Executive director Oren Cass looks back on the history of welfare reform and explains why fighting poverty requires more than just sending money to the poor.

Any political movement or political party worth its salt, when confronted with data evincing the sordid state of the American family, ought to respond by substantively prioritizing the American family’s institutional rejuvenation.