Financial Capitalism
Collections
Coin-Flip Capitalism
Do the hedge fund, private equity, and venture capital industries channel investment efficiently and in ways beneficial to the nation?
Coin-Flip Capitalism: A Primer
An overview of the hedge fund, private equity, and venture capital industries and the implications of their recent performance.
Confronting Coin-Flip Capitalism
A Pro-Market Agenda for Financial Reform
No Need to Speculate
The Empirical Case for a Financial Transaction Tax
We’re Just Speculating Here…
The Rise of Wall Street and the Fall of American Investment
We’re Just Speculating Here…
The Rise of Wall Street and the Fall of American Investment
The Corporate Erosion of Capitalism
A Firm-Level Analysis of Declining Business Investment, 1971-2017
Corporate Actual Responsibility
Holding corporations accountable for their obligations to workers, their families and communities, and the nation.
Conversations
Corporate Actual Responsibility: A Conversation with Senator Josh Hawley
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.
Critics Corner with Jon Hartley
On this episode of Critics Corner, Oren is joined by Jon Hartley, a visiting fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity and a former senior policy advisor to the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee.
Financialization in America
In this episode, Washington Free Beacon editor Aaron Sibarium and small business investor Sam Long discuss the financialization of American business culture and its impacts on our economy and society.
The Corporate Obligations Debate
Patrick Deneen and Andy Puzder debate the obligations of business.
Policy Proposals
Research & Atlas
A Guide to Private Equity
An in-depth exploration of the private-equity industry: how it works, its poor performance, and its increasing risk.
News & Commentary
Has the Financial Sector Become a Drag on the Real Economy?
PAIRAGRAPH—American Compass’s Oren Cass, in dialogue with Oaktree Capital’s Howard Marks, discusses the negative effects of the growth of the U.S. financial sector.
Wall Street’s fixation on quick profits wreaking havoc in the ‘real’ economy, report says
THE WASHINGTON POST—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.
The US needs to rediscover the meaning of investment
FINANCIAL TIMES—American Compass executive director Oren Cass makes the case that fortunes are made in financial markets without benefiting the real economy.