Amazon Union Election Wakes Up Washington, Even Some Republicans
American Compass executive director Oren Cass is featured in a Power Up discussion of the Amazon union drive and conservative support for labor organizing.
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Fulfillment: A Conversation on Amazon and Regional Inequality with Alec MacGillis
Fulfillment author Alec MacGillis joins American Compass research director Wells King for a conversation exploring what the growth of Amazon means for the future of inequality in the U.S., the pros and cons of “one-click America,” and how policymakers and consumers should respond.
Justice Thomas, Countervailing Power, and Big Tech
Justice Thomas has entered a hot debate about the best means of regulating social media. His approach to regulation tends to be more function-centric as opposed size-centric.
The Fed’s Most Harmful Statistics Error
The United States is not producing 24,881% more computers than it was in 1980, and is likely producing significantly fewer because of offshoring.
Small Business Boards: How to Help Small And Medium Businesses Compete
Large numbers of American workers are trapped in low-wage jobs in low-tech, low-profit industries in the nontraded domestic service sector, including leisure and hospitality, retail and child and elder care.
How Essential Are the ‘Email Job’ Caste?
Those HR and other middle management types make “busy work” for themselves, though it is darkly ironic that the “busyness” in which they are engaged often results in making my work more difficult and time-consuming.
Oren Cass Joins Tucker Carlson To Discuss Wall Street Investment
American Compass executive director Oren Cass joined Tucker Carlson to discuss our recent research on trends in U.S. investment and the growth of the financial sector.
Oren Cass Reveals Truth Behind Wall Street’s Claim That They Add Value To US Economy
Executive director Oren Cass joins Saagar Enjeti and Krystal Ball to discuss the declining rate of nationwide investments.
Wall Street’s Fixation on Quick Profits Wreaking Havoc in the ‘Real’ Economy, Report Says
Christopher Ingraham features We’re Just Speculating Here writing that U.S. businesses are prioritizing shareholder profits over long-term investments, and the economy’s worse off for it.
Freedom, Fairness or Flourishing: America’s Fundamental Economic Policy Choice
Knowing that many Americans see flourishing as the right goal, both the freedom and fairness camps claim their policies generate flourishing. But mostly they don’t.
Critics Corner with Stephanie Slade
On the first episode of Critics Corner, Oren is joined by Stephanie Slade, managing editor of Reason magazine. They discuss the importance of liberty to the common good, whether government should fund research or infrastructure, the meaning of free trade in the context of China, and quite a bit more.
A Weighty Matter: The Cost of Fat America
America is very fat. Being very fat is bad for you. Being very fat is expensive.
Post-Liberal America
Today’s upsurge in Catholic integralism is a one of the many signs of growing dissatisfaction with liberalism’s efforts to keep metaphysics out of public life.
Fulfillment: A Conversation on Amazon and Regional Inequality with Alec MacGillis
A conversation with Alec MacGillis about his book, Fulfillment, the Amazon behemoth, and the growth of regional inequality in the U.S.
Putting Down Roots
Olmstead has created a work of lyric subversion, luring you in with glowing prose while slowly unveiling the depth of her critique.
Wall Street Trading Tax Gets Conservative Group’s Unlikely Tout
Daniel Avis highlights American Compass’s We’re Just Speculating Here collection and proposals to reign in the growth of “non-investment” in the U.S. economy.
New Report: Most U.S. Companies Send Cash to Shareholders at Expense of Capital Base
PRESS RELEASE—In an economic transformation over past 50 years, “Eroders” have overtaken “Sustainers,” according to a new report by American Compass executive director Oren Cass.
The US Needs to Rediscover the Meaning of Investment
American Compass executive director Oren Cass makes the case that fortunes are made in financial markets without benefiting the real economy.
The Amazon Union Drive and the Changing Politics of Labor
In a discussion of the changing politics of organized labor, Benjamin Wallace-Wells cites American Compass’s work on the issue and its promise on the right-of-center.
The Corporate Erosion of Capitalism
This report provides a systematic, firm-level study of declining business investment and the shift among American corporation toward disgorging cash to shareholders.
