Report calling #creditcardrewards “lifeline” for the poor “is mostly a compendium of sloppily deployed statistics that distract & mislead more than illuminate,” American Compass Policy Dir. Chris Griswold says. #CreditCardCompetitionAct #swipefees Chris Griswold tinyurl.com/49fvxdjm

'Credit card reward programs have become the central front in Washington’s biggest financial sector war,' writes Chris Griswold

On The Commons, he breaks down how a corporate duopoly is using dubious claims of helping the working class while gouging small businesses. ⬇️

.Chris Griswold: The growing pains of redeveloping American semiconductor manufacturing exposes our national folly in eviscerating our industrial commons and capacity to protect and promote it, and will hopefully ensure that it never happens again.

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There's a video, too! 'Why are DC politicians partnering with corporate megastores to steal cashback from families?'

Couldn't the credit cards... keep offering the rewards?

No? What's that? Introducing competition would deprive them of the rents from which they pay the rewards?

Excellent Duncan Braid takedown of the “tariffs bad because, um… inflation?” silliness.

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A nation’s willingness to bet on itself says a lot about its trajectory. As does a nation’s ability to play the long game with its investments.

A smart analysis of reshoring semiconductor production in the U.S.

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'What’s galling is that those responsible for our predicament are the ones complaining loudly about the price tag for fixing their mistakes.'
-- @chris_griz on early progress of, and odd complaints about, the CHIPS Act

👇 Must-read 🧵 making good sense about the common good.

It seems my recent articles on industrial policy in Washington Post Opinions and National Affairs have ruffled some feathers. Jonah Goldberg Veronique de Rugy @ericboehm87 Colin Grabow

A short 🧵 on how free-market fundamentalists go off the rails. 1/11

Everybody's talking about the new American Compass polling on the American appetite for government... including me and @chris_griz! In the latest episode of the American Compass podcast: americancompass.org/talkin-policy-…

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This highly mockable headline poses the central question of a financialized economy: Are companies entities that exist to bring together inputs to achieve a productive purpose or just interchangeable financial assets that exist to return capital to investors.

WSJ Ed Board comes out IN FAVOR of TikTok divestment bill, makes this important concession: 'Xi Jinping has eviscerated any distinction between the government and private companies.'

That logic would seem to have rather broad implications for U.S.-China investment flows, no?

Good afternoon we’re going to win

House Ways and Means Committee citing the latest American Compass research on family-policy attitudes:

'Support for Pro-Family Policies Fast-Growing Among Conservatives'

Chris and I brought our A game for this one. Definitely worth a listen if you’re interested in the Child Tax Credit debate.

NEW SURVEY: Since 2021, the share of parenting-age Americans who say the federal government should “provide more support for families with children” has risen from 67% to 73%.

A dramatic shift on the Right is driving this rise: Republican support jumped 17 points in 3 years. 🧵

Marshall continues to be a leader on serious conservative policy reform.

(And, a good reminder that Chairman Smith accomplished something impressive in the House last week.)