The AAF Exchange

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

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 […]

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 […]

Center for Health and Economy

The Center for Health and Economy (H&E), a research initiative of the American Action Forum, is focused on providing accessible analysis on the outlook for the United States health care system. With the guidance of nationally recognized economic, budget, and public policy experts, H&E uses microsimulation models and health economics literature to evaluate the effects […]
AAF Exchange episode 20

The AAF Exchange

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

February 19, 2020

Insight

Understanding the Latest “Big Tech” Antitrust Investigation News

Jennifer Huddleston

The Federal Trade Commission recently requested information from the largest tech companies about their acquisition of smaller companies over the last…

February 19, 2020

Multimedia

(CLIP) Sanders or Bloomberg — CNBC

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses the potential economic impact of recent Democratic policy proposal and who is responsible for economic growth…

February 19, 2020

The Daily Dish

Bloomberg on the Housing GSEs

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Bloomberg on the Housing GSEs Yesterday, presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg put out his proposals for financial services, with the…

February 18, 2020

Week in Regulation

A Pair of Deregulatory Measures Drives Week

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

In an otherwise uninspired week, two cost-cutting rules stood out. One, from the Small Business Administration (SBA), deals with loans to small businesses.…

February 18, 2020

Research

The Ballooning Costs of Long-Term Care

Tara O'Neill Hayes, Sara Kurtovic

This study estimates that in 2030, LTC costs will more than double and may reach as high as $2.5 trillion.

February 18, 2020

The Daily Dish

China, Again

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: China, Again The Trump Administration is considering halting jet-engine sales to China. Specifically, The Wall Street Journal reports that…

February 14, 2020

Weekly Checkup

The Drawbacks of the Drug-Scheduling Regime

Andrew Strohman

Last Thursday, the president signed S. 3201, extending the Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) temporary ban on fentanyl analogues such as carfentanil for…

February 14, 2020

The Daily Dish

The TCJA Debate Simplified

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: The TCJA Debate Simplified Earlier this week, I testified before the House Committee on Ways and Means regarding the “Disappearing Corporate…

February 13, 2020

Multimedia

#Eakinomics: Raising the Minimum Wage

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses the effects of raising the minimum wage on job and wage growth.

February 13, 2020

Multimedia

(CLIP) The Federal Debt and Budget — CNBC

Gordon Gray

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February 13, 2020

The Daily Dish

The 2020 Regulatory Agenda

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: The 2020 Regulatory Agenda I am pleased that you read the Daily Dish every single morning. And I congratulate you on reading each and every…

February 12, 2020

Multimedia

The AAF Exchange — Ep. 20: The 2020 Regulatory Budget

Dan Bosch

AAF’s Director of Regulatory Policy Dan Bosch discusses the Trump Administration’s regulatory budget and its highlights. Notes: The Rules that…

February 12, 2020

The Daily Dish

Laying the Ground Work for 5G

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Laying the Ground Work for 5G This past Friday, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Ajit Pai, announced draft…

February 11, 2020

Insight

The FCC C-Band Auction and the Future of 5G

Jennifer Huddleston

Executive Summary The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently announced plans to conduct a C-Band auction by the end of the year. This timely…

February 11, 2020

Testimony

The Disappearing Corporate Income Tax

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

United States House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Neal, Ranking Member Brady, and members of the Committee, thank you…

February 11, 2020

Multimedia

(CLIP) President Trump’s Budget Proposal — Fox Business

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

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February 11, 2020

The Daily Dish

Recent Minimum Wage Hikes

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Recent Minimum Wage Hikes As Eakinomics noted recently, there is a concerted effort to make sure that the administration gets no credit…

February 10, 2020

Insight

Highlights of FY2021 President’s Budget

Gordon Gray

President's Budget by the Numbers

February 10, 2020

Week in Regulation

A Net Regulatory Week, Just Barely

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

The first week of February turned out to be both an active and balanced one in the world of rulemakings. There were 14 actions with some quantified cost…

February 10, 2020

Research

Assessing the Impact of Recent Minimum Wage Hikes

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Isabel Soto

Executive Summary The labor market is in a period of wage growth, and proponents of raising the minimum wage are claiming that minimum-wage hikes…

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 […]

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