Oren Cass

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818 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 3 Jun

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · The Wealth of Wall Street with Oren Cass · 11 Feb 2026 podcast

That at some point, the question is, what are the incentives for businesses to invest and build stuff or not?

It goes back to that piece of capitalism I think we entirely agree on, which is you do want the profit motive driving positive behavior.

So the basic idea of supply-side economics is to say, look, one of the best ways to spur growth would actually be to improve the incentives of people to invest and build and grow businesses, that that can be good for workers too.

I think that's correct, but I think that then you –

pull this pendulum back in the other direction, you do some things that are more business friendly, you create a better environment for investment, that's great.

And then that swings straight all the way through to anything that's good for corporations and leads to more profits or reduces taxes is always gonna be better.

Same with, okay, we did have overregulation in a lot of cases.

Well, therefore, any – and we did need various types of deregulation.

Let's swing that all the way through to just the less regulation, the better, the market will automatically work.

I think we sort of got all the way back up to that side of the pendulum and now we need to swing back down again.

Yeah.

So that's exactly where the rubber meets the road on all this.

And I think it's interestingly where you start to see some of the traditional political divisions reemerge.

Because my view is it's a real problem if you have left and right disagreeing on the diagnosis, right?

I think both sides have gotten into that.

Do they disagree still or is it – Much less so.

There is some.

So I think if you look back to the 2000s, let's say, the Republican Party had really dug into a position of saying essentially we have achieved equal opportunity.

Everyone can succeed and build a great business.

Actually, if we adjust the numbers in this way, everybody's wages are going up and therefore— You would be surprised how many people's full-time job is to adjust the numbers to show that wages are going up.

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