The Drug Pricing Clinic

The Drug Pricing Clinic is your home for all of AAF’s most relevant work on prescription drug policy, proposals, and programs. Policymakers from across the political spectrum are offering proposals for lowering the costs of prescription drugs, but the market is tremendously complicated — and any policy intervention promises to have numerous effects across the […]

The AAF Exchange

You wondered. We explained. AAF experts provide clear, data-driven insight into today’s economic and domestic policy issues. 

Eye on Trade

International trade empowers Americans to build a better life by expanding options for U.S. consumers, lowering the cost of American manufacturing, and giving producers access to billions of consumers around the globe. Recent new trade barriers imposed by the Trump Administration threaten to diminish these benefits, significantly increasing costs for both businesses and consumers. AAF’s […]

Analyzing Plans To Reallocate C-Band for 5G Deployment

Executive Summary The ubiquity of smartphones and the advent of the Internet of Things has propelled the importance and value of the transmission infrastructure for mobile data. Rising demand for radio spectrum has driven a conversation over how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should use its power to allocate spectrum, but recently this discussion has […]

The Drug Pricing Clinic

The Drug Pricing Clinic is your home for all of AAF’s most relevant work on prescription drug policy, proposals, and programs. Policymakers from across the political spectrum are offering proposals for lowering the costs of prescription drugs, but the market is tremendously complicated — and any policy intervention promises to have numerous effects across the […]

October 31, 2019
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Events

The Federal Reserve and Real-Time Payments

Join the American Action Forum for a panel discussion on FedNow, a real-time payments platform.

October 18, 2019

Weekly Checkup

Don’t Believe Everything You Read in CBO Cost Estimates

Christopher Holt

Drug prices continued to drive the health policy debate this week. First, we received a new version of Speaker Pelosi’s drug pricing bill (H.R. 3), aimed…

October 18, 2019

The Daily Dish

Bottom Line on Japan Trade Deal

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Bottom Line on Japan Trade Deal I think I’ve finally got a fix on the president’s master plan. The Turkey-Kurds-Syria policy is designed…

October 17, 2019

Multimedia

#Eakinomics: The USMCA

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

New in #Eakinomics – AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses the pros and cons of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA).

October 17, 2019

Insight

Changes to Tip Regulations

Isabel Soto

Executive Summary On October 8, The Department of Labor proposed a rule that would allow for changes to tip regulations under the Fair Labor Standards…

October 17, 2019

Testimony

Hearing on the Case for Climate Optimism: Realistic Pathways to Achieving Net-Zero Emissions

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Testimony to the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee, House Natural Resources Committee * The views expressed here are my own and do not represent…

October 17, 2019

The Daily Dish

Warren’s Putative Assault on Oil

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Warren’s Putative Assault on Oil Axios is reporting “Warren's campaign says one of her existing policy proposals would create pressure…

October 16, 2019

Testimony

Hearing to Discuss Controversy Over Measuring Economic Inequality

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Testimony to the Joint Economic Committee, United States Congress * The views expressed here are my own and do not represent the position of the American…

October 16, 2019

Testimony

Strengthening Our Fiscal Toolkit: Policy Options to Improve Economic Resiliency

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF president Douglas Holtz-Eakin shares his views on proposals for automatic fiscal stimulus before the House Budget Committee.

October 16, 2019

Multimedia

What is C-Band?

Will Rinehart

AAF’s Director of Technology and Innovation Policy Will Rinehart discusses a recent proposal to use the C-Band to support 5G technologies.

October 16, 2019

Multimedia

The AAF Exchange — Ep. 13: Reforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Thomas Wade

AAF’s Director of Financial Services Policy Thomas Wade discusses the role of the housing finance giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Trump Administration's…

October 16, 2019

The Daily Dish

Tariffs Done Right

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Tariffs Done Right As Thomas Paine said: “These are the times that try men's souls. The summer market-opener and sunshine trade-promoter…

October 15, 2019

Insight

Boeing vs Airbus: Explaining the Latest Tariffs on the EU

Jacqueline Varas

Recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) granted the United States the right to impose tariffs on nearly $7.5 billion of European imports. These tariffs…

October 15, 2019

Week in Regulation

More Impact from the Public Charge Rule

Dan Bosch

With the deadline of the 2019 regulatory budget year passed, this was a mostly quiet week for rulemaking, with the publishing of just 12 final or proposed…

October 15, 2019

The Daily Dish

CBO on Pelosi and Drugs 

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: CBO on Pelosi and Drugs  Friday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released “Effects of Drug Price Negotiation Stemming From Title…

October 11, 2019

Weekly Checkup

Who’s Making Health Policy?

Christopher Holt

This week saw more executive action on health care from the Trump Administration, as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published two notices…

October 11, 2019

The Daily Dish

Trump Dives Into the Regulatory Weeds

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Trump Dives Into the Regulatory Weeds For a president often criticized for not being interested in facts, details, and analysis, President…

October 10, 2019

Insight

Explaining the Executive Orders on Guidance

Dan Bosch

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY President Trump signed two executive orders (EOs) aimed at curtailing agency abuses of guidance documents, which have been used…

October 10, 2019

The Daily Dish

Drug Pricing Mystery Solved!

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Drug Pricing Mystery Solved! There is an old saying that there are many economic puzzles but only two deep mysteries: Why do some countries…

October 9, 2019

Multimedia

(CLIP) Retirement, Pensions & The Economy — Yahoo! Finance

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses investing for retirement, the future of pensions, and the state of the economy on Yahoo! Finance.  

The AAF Exchange

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