Eakinomics: The ACA’s Cost-Sharing Subsidies and Congress’s Power of the Purse As much as many policymakers would like to put the recent health…

Eakinomics: The Economic War with China White House Political Director Steve Bannon has received plenty of attention in recent days. However, a lesser-noted…

Eakinomics: Regulatory Federalism Much has been made — including in Eakinomics — about the dramatic change in the trajectory of federal regulation…

Eakinomics: Immigration and Fiscal Costs I’ve already said my piece about the undesirability of the recently introduced RAISE Act, which masquerades…

Eakinomics: No Need for GSE Reform? The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday on the Credit Risk Transfer (CRT) programs of Fannie Mae and Freddie…

Eakinomics: Expensing Investment and Interest Deductibility The border adjustment feature of the House Blueprint dominated the tax reform discussion…

Eakinomics: Grading the Regulatory Agenda After 6 Months Then-candidate Trump promised a dramatic rollback of the Obama-era administrative overreach.…

Eakinomics: Tax Reform and the Household Budget The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the corporation income tax will produce $3.9 trillion in…

Eakinomics: Raising the Federal Debt Limit Seemingly nothing arouses Capitol Hill passion like the need to raise the federal debt limit. Should the…

During the recent debate over health care reform, perhaps nothing got as much attention as the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) “scores” of the proposed…

Wall Street is evidently catching on to President Trump’s ambitious deregulation plans. Trump has said he wants to eliminate up to 75 percent of…

The June jobs report showed that top-line job growth was 222,000, and employment growth was broadly distributed. In addition, the previous two months…