Highlights: Presidential debates can serve to inform the public about the positive policy vision of the respective candidates However, presidencies are often dominated by external, action-forcing events The next president will need to grapple in some way with 5 predictable,…
Read moreThe upcoming 4th of July holiday is projected to be the busiest Independence Day travel week ever. One common way families are making travel affordable is through credit card rewards programs. According to major U.S. airlines, about a quarter of…
Read moreLast week, a coalition of advocacy groups, including labor unions, socialists, and other liberal organizations released a report criticizing the real estate industry and affiliated organizations for supporting housing policies opposed by the progressive left. The policies highlighted by the…
Read moreWhen the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 2025, a substantial portion of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will expire. The forthcoming debate over how and to what extent expiring provisions should be extended is likely to consume…
Read moreToday, American Compass released a paper that models two approaches to federal budgeting that are completely divorced from the key budgetary challenges confronting federal policymakers and, to a surprising degree, the policies otherwise espoused by American Compass. The Compass budget…
Read moreOn May 15, the National Association of Homebuilders and Wells Fargo released their monthly Housing Market Index (HMI) indicating that homebuilder sentiment had fallen to a four-month low. The index registered a 45, which as a diffusion index on a…
Read moreDuring a CNBC interview this morning, American Compass Executive Director Oren Cass called for higher taxes and dismissed the basic tenets of pro-growth economic policy. First, see CNBC's Joe Kernan blasting Cass's calls for higher taxes: “In what universe would…
Read moreThe two signal domestic policy achievements of the Trump administration were tax reform and stopping the regulatory state in its tracks. Compared to the Obama and Biden administrations, there is no more striking policy contrast. These domestic achievements could not…
Read moreThe United States is the world’s largest economy, and its citizens enjoy the highest standard of living among major world economies. Essential to that prosperity are economic policies that foster entrepreneurship and market dynamism. Among major trading partners, the U.S.…
Read moreThere is an old adage, variously misattributed to some of history’s more clever minds, which observes: “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Given the ease with which information – truthful…
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