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<title><![CDATA[Oren Cass - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/30763.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Oren Cass]]></description><category domain="30763">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[News From the White House on Defense Contractors]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonplace.org/p/you-cant-spell-defense-industrial</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reporting this week indicates that President Trump might soon sign an executive order to limit share buybacks, dividends, and executive pay for defense contractors whose projects are over budget and behind schedule, part of an effort to bring more discipline to what the administration...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Health Care Became a Financialized Hellhole]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonplace.org/p/oren-cass-how-health-care-became</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Instead of insuring families, we treat them like junk bonds.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economists Shouldn't Play Word Games]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonplace.org/p/economists-shouldnt-play-word-games</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Receiving open letters is always fun, even if one can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t respond every time. But once you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve received six or seven (6'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'7!) from the same hapless correspondent, a continued silence might discourage further missives, which would be disappointing for all involved. Oren is on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Nobody Trusts You, They're Not the Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonplace.org/p/if-nobody-trusts-you-theyre-not-the</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re back from Thanksgiving for the pre-Christmas sprint, with a big ol'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' pile of stuff you may have missed and should probably be reading. But first, Oren attended an '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'AI Roundtable'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and left with some thoughts:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Most YIMBYs Don't Have Back Yards]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonplace.org/p/most-yimbys-dont-have-back-yards</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And more from this week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Big AI, the Creepiness Is the Point]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonplace.org/p/for-big-ai-the-creepiness-is-the</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And more from this week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bursting the Other Wall Street Bubble]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonplace.org/p/bursting-the-other-wall-street-bubble</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And more from this week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Truck or Treat! A 'Labor Shortage' Vanishes Into Thin Air]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonplace.org/p/truck-or-treat-a-labor-shortage-vanishes</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Positive results continue to emerge from the Trump administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ongoing experiment in tightening the labor market for truck drivers. As we highlighted last week, trucking spot rates are rising for legal American drivers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Personal Anecdotes Are Not Helpful]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonplace.org/p/oren-cass-your-personal-anecdote</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The danger of the elite's obsession with its own stories and circumstances.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Economic and Security Order That Works for America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/grand-strategy-reciprocity</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States has pursued two grand strategies in the 80 years since World War II. One was an extraordinary success: the policy of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'containment'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' that guided American economic investments, foreign relations, and military deployments during the Cold War, which led to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[While America Bends, Europe Looks Ready To Snap]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonplace.org/p/while-america-bends-europe-looks</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hello from London, where we are both on Old Queen Street today for a conference on'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Great Realignment: Are There Lessons for British Conservatives from the American New Right?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s cohosted by American Compass and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Spectator'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and features a phenomenal lineup of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Should Get Their House in Order, Admit Errors]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ft.com/content/de4a2150-e6c0-4983-b92a-7f3e4c81a9b9?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The party should be concentrating on developing a new agenda not theatrics]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cleaning Up the Open-Border Economic Mess]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonplace.org/p/coming-down-from-the-open-border</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Illegal immigration looks good in the economic data, but not to American citizens.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Math Problem at the Heart of the Family Budget]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonplace.org/p/the-math-problem-at-the-heart-of</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And more from the week that was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Won't the Economy Listen to the Models?]]></title>
							<link>https://commonplace.substack.com/p/why-wont-the-economy-listen-to-the</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg's Anna Wong on making the economic data make sense]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Moral Arbitrage Driving Wall Street Profits]]></title>
							<link>https://commonplace.substack.com/p/oren-cass-the-moral-arbitrage-driving</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Squeezing 'inefficient' businesses run for greater purpose will generate cash, but not value]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bring Back the Computer Lab]]></title>
							<link>https://commonplace.org/2025/07/22/bring-back-the-computer-lab/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kids need to learn about computers; they don't need computers to learn.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Something Is Rotten at the Federal Reserve]]></title>
							<link>https://commonplace.org/2025/07/16/something-is-rotten-at-the-federal-reserve/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chairman Jerome Powell's decision to play politics with Trump's tariff policies is no way for him to run our central bank.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Three Things That Weren't Supposed To Happen, But Did]]></title>
							<link>https://commonplace.org/2025/06/25/three-things-that-werent-supposed-to-happen-but-did/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What do these developments from the worlds of globalization, immigration, and financialization have in common? They point to the three-dimensional collapse of the narrative atop which we built our economy over the past generation.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Is Climate Policy For?]]></title>
							<link>https://commonplace.org/2025/06/10/who-is-climate-policy-for/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a long hiatus from commenting on climate policy, Oren Cass shows that the Left's climate policy isn't actually implemented for the interests of workers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trade With Communists Should Be Uncertain]]></title>
							<link>https://commonplace.org/2025/05/14/trade-with-communists-should-be-uncertain/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American businesses are not supposed to have confidence that they can grow and profit in the People's Republic of China.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Going on Offense Against China]]></title>
							<link>https://commonplace.org/2025/04/29/trump-should-go-on-offense-against-china/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yes, you read that right, the Trump administration needs to play offense to make sure that the economic constraints against China become permanent.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Incentive Is Strong for Countries To Make a Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://commonplace.org/2025/04/10/trade-deals-in-the-time-of-tariffs/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump's reciprocal levies and tariffs aimed at our allies have been paused for 90 days, what ought to happen now?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Data Behind Teamsters' Refusal To Endorse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ft.com/content/8d09dee7-a508-43da-b37d-1b8a7b9008f3?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[US union members and leaders are not always on the same political page]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Which Party Will Appeal to American Workers?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ft.com/content/75667fb1-1dc4-45de-a23d-4090c8f04b87?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political elites are pulling Republicans and Democrats away from the voters they need to win over]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Return of Actual Conservatism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ft.com/content/c445a2ec-a607-4a25-9daf-11af0ba44a52?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new conservatism that extends across all issues and welcomes in the common citizen offers the first plausible shot in decades of returning the Republican party to a durable governing majority.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Is What Elite Failure Looks Like]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/opinion/populism-power-elites-politics.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A revolution is about to swallow U.S. politics, and it's based on the simplest and most radical theory of power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Mitch McConnell Still in Charge?]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/22/why-is-mitch-mcconnell-still-in-charge/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Having no apparent priorities or vision, McConnell has failed to unite his caucus behind any coherent message.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Conservatives That Should Be Protesting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ft.com/content/3654063f-6d42-48e5-8a9b-6d4de347279c?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Universities depend on taxpayer money to survive, and they are wasting those funds]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Have Democrats Finally Lost the Border Argument?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ft.com/content/de7fcbee-1c4e-4124-9787-3d23f1965efb?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oren Cass</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Illegal border crossings have quadrupled since Joe Biden became president]]></description>
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