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The Idiocy of Econ 101

Many of the economic policy disasters of the last generation are easy to underst...

By Michael Lind

Understanding Economic Nationalism

The free market of Goldman Sachs is not the free market of the lemonade stand....

By Darren J. Beattie

Towards A Pro-Worker, Pro-Family Conservatism

These remarks were delivered at The American Conservative’s annual gala in Was...

By J.D. Vance

Industrial Strategy

America’s Advanced Manufacturing Problem—and How to Fix It

"Planners and businessmen of the postwar era presumed that America’s leadershi...

By David Adler and William B. Bonvillian

Boomer Europe is Dying

“Half museum and half retirement home, Europe grew fat and complacent as histo...

By Aris Roussinos

How Airbus Took Flight

The success of the aerospace company evidences strong returns on strategic indus...

By Gabriela Rodriguez

The Hollow Return of American Manufacturing

American factories might come back, but the middle class won’t follow....

By Hirsh Chitkara

Restoring American Manufacturing: A Practical Guide

Summary: Officially, the United States has no industrial policy. But in practice...

By David P. Goldman

America’s Government Is Spending Lavishly to Revive Manufacturing

"New factories are springing up all over America, from Idaho to Georgia. Can a m...

By Various

The U.S. effort to arm Ukraine starts in Scranton, Pennsylvania

The war in Ukraine has led to a huge surge in U.S. ammunition production. ...

By Joshua Keating

Woke Capital and ESG

The Fischer of Wall Street (ft. Nate Fischer)

In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Nick sits down with Nate Fischer, Found...

By Moment of Truth

BlackRock Plots to Buy Ukraine

BlackRock will be creating a roadmap for reconstruction for Ukraine....

By Bradley Devlin

Breaking Blackrock’s Back (feat. WV Treasurer Riley Moore)

West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore joins Moment of Truth to talk woke "ES...

By Moment of Truth

Woke Capital Blinks

In the past few months: Disney paused political donations, Exxon banned BLM flag...

By Nate Hochman

Conservatives Must Address America’s Housing Crisis

"Conservatives are well-positioned to empower families without promoting depende...

By Austin Stone

Corporate Actual Responsibility: A Conversation with Senator Josh Hawley

Senator Josh Hawley talks with American Compass executive director Oren Cass abo...

By The American Compass Podcast

The Rise of Corporate-State Tyranny

"In wealthy societies, a large part of the corporate elite does not see widespre...

By Joel Kotkin

Dignity of Work

How To Find A Non-Woke Job

RedBalloon was created with a simple mission: Get America back to work. It has s...

By Moment of Truth

Why the GOP should embrace a pro-worker agenda

Republicans can seek to help workers while helping businesses to grow, writes Pa...

By Patrick T. Brown

Corporations Exploit Low-Skill Immigrants for Cheap Labor

Oren Cass, Executive Director of American Compass discusses how immigration is s...

By Moment of Truth

There Is No “Labor Shortage”

Oren Cass, Executive Director of American Compass discusses the so-called "labor...

By Moment of Truth

Jobs Americans Would Do (ft. Oren Cass)

In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh sits down with Oren Cass, Execu...

By Moment of Truth

From Blue Collar to White Collar: The Decline of Hands-On Jobs in the US

In this video, we delve into the disappearing trades and crafts in America, shed...

By Moment of Truth

Biden’s Anti-Worker Border Policy

"Biden has in effect colluded with the cartels to undercut the American working...

By Batya Ungar-Sargon

Trade

How The Financial Crisis Pushed China and America Apart

What is the relationship between the 2008 financial crisis and the deterioration...

By Moment of Truth

Ronald Reagan Was No Free Trader

Former U.S. Trade Representative Amb. Robert Lighthizer under President Donald T...

By Moment of Truth

What Does The Federal Trade Commission Do?

Mark Meador, Partner at Kressin Meador and antitrust expert, breaks down the eco...

By Moment of Truth

A Hard Break from China

The dream of a liberal, democratic China is decidedly dead, and U.S. policymaker...

By American Compass

Lighthizer Wins the Long Game

Once a voice crying out in the wilderness, the GOP trade expert has seen his ide...

By Harry Scherer

Biden’s Build Back Beijing Plan (feat. Michael Stumo)

Michael Stumo talks trade, Biden's 'Build Back Better' plan, industrial policy, ...

By Moment of Truth

The Great Eurasian Economic Realignment

Western sanctions may accelerate Russia’s economic integration with Asia, writ...

By Samo Burja

Financialization

Does Private Equity Own Everything?

If you like hard-hitting, long-winded, comedic investigations into incredibly bo...

By Good Work

The Financialization Of The American Elite

Income inequality, financialization, and a socially inefficient distribution of ...

By Sam Long

How Asset Managers Took Over Your Life

How Britain’s biggest privatisation went unnoticed, why the heart of the natio...

By Dan Hitchens

The Price of the 1980s

Debt, decline, and immigration....

By Christopher Caldwell

Britain Is Dead

Despite its early industrial dominance, Britain’s elites never managed to adap...

By Samuel Mcilhagga

Finance Means Betting on People—Not Numbers

To restore true wealth creation, we must believe in people, wrote Nate Fischer, ...

By Nathaniel Fischer

Financialization and the Problem of Mutually Assured Capital Destruction

Many contemporary economic debates remain grounded in older models of firm compe...

By Marc Rohatyn

Energy

Will This Be The Decade Of Nuclear Power?

In this new interview, expert Emmet Penney warns that with the world's increasin...

By Moment of Truth

Lights Out, America? (ft. Emmet Penney)

Emmet Penney, Editor-in-Chief of Grid Brief, joins Moment of Truth to discuss nu...

By Moment of Truth

The Regulatory Nuclear Complex (ft. Isaiah Taylor)

Isaiah Taylor, Founder of Valar Atomics, joins Moment of Truth. We discuss nucle...

By Moment of Truth

The War Against The American West (ft. William Perry Pendley)

In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with William ...

By Moment of Truth

Trump Predicted European Energy Crisis

Flashback to 2018: President Donald Trump criticized Germany for paying "billion...

By CNBC International

Who Killed Nuclear Energy and How to Revive It

If we can commit to confronting today’s so-called environmentalists on the pol...

By Emmet Penney

Germany’s Apokalypse Now

The worst nightmares of Europe’s sleeping giant are coming true all at once....

By Jeremy Stern

Supply Chains

Coming Food Shortages

"How war in Ukraine conflict is creating a global humanitarian crisis," writes A...

By Adam Korzeniewski in Muzzle Velocity.

The Supply Chain’s Inconvenient Truth

Michael Rentz explains why the supply chains are in crisis....

By Michael Rentz

Moving the Chains: American Compass Policy Symposium

American Compass brings together 10 experts in a detailed policy symposium that ...

By Oren Cass, et al.

Moment of Truth

What Do We Owe Workers? (ft. Jonathan Berry)

In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh sits down with Jonathan Berry, ...

By Moment of Truth

The Debt Limit Fight, Explained

The debt ceiling fight in the U.S. Congress between Republican Speaker Kevin McC...

By Moment of Truth

Our Fake Economy (feat. Julius Krein)

Julius Krein joins Moment of Truth to talk the financialization of the US econom...

By Moment of Truth

Breaking Blackrock’s Back (feat. WV Treasurer Riley Moore)

West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore joins Moment of Truth to talk woke "ES...

By Moment of Truth

Biden’s Build Back Beijing Plan (feat. Michael Stumo)

Michael Stumo talks trade, Biden's 'Build Back Better' plan, industrial policy, ...

By Moment of Truth

The Masters of The Universe (feat. Attorney General Jeff Sessions)

In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with Jeff Sessions, form...

By Moment of Truth

The Hedge Funds Are Not Your Friends (feat. Oren Cass)

In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with Oren Cass, Executiv...

By Moment of Truth

Federal Reserve

What the Fed’s Big Balance Sheet Unwind Means for Markets

The Federal Reserve recently began shrinking its massive balance sheet, unwindin...

By Odd Lots

How the Fed Caused Inflation

Marshall Kosloff interviews journalist Christopher Leonard to better understand ...

By Marshall Kosloff

Stagflation: Causes and Cures

Following the hysterical herd has gotten us in this mess. Now is the time to try...

By Philip Pilkington

Globalization

The Failure of Neoliberal Globalization

"Our foreign policy since the end of the Cold War has been a world-historical ga...

By David Singh Grewal

The Collapse of Globalization and America’s Retreat

Peter Zeihan, geopolitical strategist and author of The End of the World Is Just...

By Realignment Podcast

Globalism Failed to Deliver the Economy We Need

“We don’t yet have a new unified field theory for the postneoliberal world. ...

By Rana Foroohar

After Hyper-Globalization

What should the next trading system be? Can we restore the capacity of the U.S. ...

By Robert Kuttner

Globalization In Decline But US Uniquely Positioned to Come Out On Top

The U.S., with its relatively isolated geography, promising demographics, and si...

By Bradford Betz

Searching for Capitalism in the Wreckage of Globalization

Oren Cass on a journey to the center of the neoliberal dogma....

By Oren Cass

A Deglobalized World

Peter Zeihan offers a perspective on the effects of globalization, and the conse...

By Peter Zeihan on GEOPOP

Chips and Semiconductors

The Geopolitics of Microchips

The US and China are fighting a war. It's a weird one that's hard to see. It's b...

By Johnny Harris

How TSMC Became a Linchpin of the Global Economy

At a time of shortages and superpower competition over new technology, the compa...

By Kathrin Hille

Breaking Down New Tech Export Controls On China

The US Commerce Department just dropped 100+ pages of new export control regulat...

By Jordan Schneider

Where the Chips Fell

Julius Krein offers his thoughts on the CHIPS Act, and an explanation of the pro...

By Julius Krein

The Chips Act debate shows how far the Republicans have moved

Rebuilding America’s industrial base is superseding traditional economic doctr...

By Oren Cass

A Guide to the Semiconductor Industry

The U.S. supply chain for advanced chips is at risk without concerted government...

By American Compass

How the U.S. Lost Chip Dominance and How It Can Be Regaine‪d‬

The U.S. was once a manufacturing leader in semiconductors. That's no longer the...

By Odd Lots Podcast

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