The AAF Exchange Podcasts

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

Addressing the Climate Challenge

The Biden Administration has promised to “take swift action to address the climate emergency” and set ambitious emissions goals for the U.S. economy. Such action will require Congress to approve sweeping new emissions targets and grants of authority to the executive branch. In the absence of such action, federal agencies will need to push the […]

Assessing the Build Back Better Act

AAF experts are assessing key provisions of President Biden’s Build Back Better Act as it makes its way through Congress. Check back often for insight on the latest developments.

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 […]
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The AAF Exchange Podcasts

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

May 16, 2022

Insight

Macroeconomic Effects of H.R. 5376: the Build Back Better Act

Gordon Gray, Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Executive Summary  As the debate around the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) continues, it is useful to determine whether the bill’s spending provisions…

May 16, 2022

Week in Regulation

Lightbulb Efficiency Rules Shine the Brightest

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

While it did not reach the dizzying heights of the preceding week, this past week did see some notable activity on the regulatory front. There were only…

May 16, 2022

Comments for the Record

Implementing the Infrastructure Investment And Jobs Act: Prevention and Elimination of Digital Discrimination

Jeffrey Westling

Comments of Jeffrey Westling[1] This NOI begins a congressionally mandated examination of equal access to broadband, as well as potential deployment…

May 16, 2022

Insight

Tracker: The Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet Assets

Thomas Wade

Introduction This tracker follows the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) total consolidated assets, held on its balance sheet, as the best indicator of the Fed’s…

May 16, 2022

The Daily Dish

Regulatory Magic

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

One of the poorly understood aspects of the administrative state is the amount of regulatory activity that can take place without an agency seemingly doing…

May 13, 2022

Weekly Checkup

State of Play of Mental Health Parity

Margaret Barnhorst

May is recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month in the United States to raise awareness of mental illness and advocate for improvements in mental health…

May 13, 2022

Infographic

Key Agencies Lack Formal Leadership

Thomas Wade

A new AAF infographic shows the myriad states of ad hoc leadership arrangements under which key financial regulatory agencies are operating.

May 13, 2022

The Daily Dish

Inflation Follies

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Inflation redistributes from lenders to borrowers, hits some families harder than others, and varies in its pace and duration. But it uniformly makes politicians…

May 12, 2022

Multimedia

(CLIP) Discussing Inflation — MSNBC

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses inflation on MSNBC.

May 12, 2022

The Daily Dish

The Inflation Tax

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) yesterday released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for April and CPI inflation came in at 8.3 percent over the…

May 11, 2022

Multimedia

(CLIP) Discussing Inflation — CNN

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses inflation and its impacts on the economy with CNN.

May 11, 2022

The Daily Dish

The Exception That Makes the Rule (About Rules)

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

The history of Eakinomics is replete with regulatory missteps, rulemaking foolishness, and an economy festooned with red tape. Every now and then, however…

May 10, 2022

Insight

Modernizing the Community Reinvestment Act—a New Proposed Rule 

Thomas Wade

Executive Summary  The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), a 1977 law designed to promote financial inclusion by requiring banks to provide services…

May 10, 2022

Research

The Total Cost of U.S. Tariffs

Tom Lee, Jacqueline Varas

Executive Summary During his time in office, former President Trump unilaterally imposed numerous tariffs on a variety of goods including but not…

May 10, 2022

Infographic

Tracking U.S. Tariffs

Jacqueline Varas, Tom Lee

Research on the Total Cost of Tariffs

May 10, 2022

The Daily Dish

Is the Economy Faltering?

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Some recent economic data contained jarring headline numbers. When the Commerce Department issued its first estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) in…

May 9, 2022

Multimedia

(CLIP) Discussing Inflation — Bloomberg

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses inflation on Bloomberg.

May 9, 2022

Week in Regulation

Costs Leap Forward

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

For much of 2022, the net impact of all final rules resulted in economic savings. That changed this week. A Department of Transportation (DOT) corollary…

May 9, 2022

Infographic

The Social Value of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

Casey Mulligan, Margaret Barnhorst

AAF Infographic breaks down the $1.5 trillion annual social value of employer-sponsored insurance.

May 9, 2022

The Daily Dish

Pillar 1, Pillar 2, and U.S. History

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

We all know the story. Colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into…

Addressing the Climate Challenge

The Biden Administration has promised to “take swift action to address the climate emergency” and set ambitious emissions goals for the U.S. economy. Such action will require Congress to approve sweeping new emissions targets and grants of authority to the executive branch. In the absence of such action, federal agencies will need to push the […]

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