State-by-State: The Labor Force and Economic Effects of the Opioid Crisis

#Eakinomics: Trump’s Regulatory Rollback

New in #Eakinomics – One of the Trump Administration’s least appreciated accomplishments is its rollback of costly regulations. AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin explains how they did it.

The Total Cost of Trump’s New Tariffs

The president’s proposed tariffs could increase nationwide consumer costs by nearly $40 billion annually.

Regs Wrap-Up FY 2018: The Trump Administration’s Regulatory Budget – Dan Bosch

One plank of the Trump Administration’s agenda has been cutting the regulatory burden. How did they do in Fiscal Year 2018? AAF’s Director of Regulatory Policy Dan Bosch explains how the administration’s regulatory “budget” led to a whopping $1.65 billion in savings.
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State-by-State: The Labor Force and Economic Effects of the Opioid Crisis

October 15, 2018

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Regs Wrap-Up FY 2018: The Trump Administration’s Regulatory Budget – Dan Bosch

Dan Bosch

One plank of the Trump Administration’s agenda has been cutting the regulatory burden. How did they do in Fiscal Year 2018? AAF's Director of Regulatory…

October 15, 2018

Week in Regulation

Immigration Measure Drives Sizable New Costs

Dan Goldbeck

A single proposed rule out of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) punctuated an otherwise mundane week in rulemaking activity. The DHS proposal regarding…

October 15, 2018

The Daily Dish

U.S.-China Trade War in Global Perspective

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: U.S.-China Trade War in Global Perspective The imposition of tariffs against imported goods from China is explicitly intended to harm Chinese…

October 12, 2018

Weekly Checkup

Medicaid Growth, Past and Future

Tara O'Neill Hayes

The Medicaid actuaries recently released their annual status update on the program. The top-line numbers reveal no surprises: Expenditures and enrollment…

October 12, 2018

The Daily Dish

Fun With Charts

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Fun With Charts The gripping news story (for those dedicated watchers of CNBC or Fox Business) has been the stock market gyrations of the…

October 11, 2018

Insight

Are Immigrants Driving Income Inequality?

Jacqueline Varas, Maximilian Maydanchik

Executive Summary Immigrants arriving to the United States today from every region of the world are more educated than in the past, leading to substantial…

October 11, 2018

The Daily Dish

Financial Turbulence

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Financial Turbulence Yesterday was a choppy day for financial markets. The S&P dropped 3.3 percent (95 points), the Dow fell 3.2 percent…

October 11, 2018

Insight

What’s Behind Rising Oil Prices?

Philip Rossetti

Constrained supply in OPEC is one reason for high oil prices, but pipeline congestion in Canada is also a significant underlying cause of constrained supply…

October 10, 2018

The Daily Dish

Tit for Tat. Not.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Tit for Tat. Not. As economic relations with China become increasingly strained, a concern arises regarding Chinese holdings of U.S. Treasury…

October 9, 2018

Multimedia

#Eakinomics: Trump’s Regulatory Rollback

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

New in #Eakinomics – One of the Trump Administration's least appreciated accomplishments is its rollback of costly regulations. AAF President Douglas…

October 9, 2018

Week in Regulation

Deregulatory Proposals Lead Off the New Fiscal Year

Dan Goldbeck

A series of proposed rules with modest cost reductions was the primary driver of regulatory trends last week. These proposals covered such topics as refrigerant…

October 9, 2018

The Daily Dish

President Trump and Bilateralism

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: President Trump and Bilateralism President Trump brought into office a new approach to international economic relations: bilateralism. In…

October 5, 2018

Weekly Checkup

The Continuing Success of Medicare Advantage

Christopher Holt

It can sometimes feel like every new public policy endeavor ends up tangled in unintended negative consequences. Reporters and analysts have fallen over…

October 5, 2018

U6 Fix

Good News Again…No Really

Gordon Gray

There’s going to be a lot of initial attention on what may seem like a disappointing monthly change to the payroll survey number, ringing in at 134,000.…

October 5, 2018

The Daily Dish

September Jobs

Gordon Gray

The August employment report contained a lot of good numbers and one great one. Average hourly earnings rose from $27.06 to $27.16 – an annual rate increase…

October 4, 2018

The Daily Dish

Fuzzy M&A Thinking

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Fuzzy M&A Thinking AAF’s Will Rinehart has a new piece entitled "The Government Should Not Ban Mergers and Buyouts." I point this out…

October 4, 2018

Insight

The Government Should Not Ban Mergers and Buyouts

Will Rinehart

In an effort to curb the market power of the largest tech companies, some legislators and public policy experts have proposed banning mergers and acquisitions…

October 3, 2018

Research

Trump Administration Regulatory Savings More Than Double Goal

Dan Bosch, Dan Goldbeck

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Trump Administration established a “regulatory budget” for agencies in one of its first executive orders, EO 13,771. That…

October 3, 2018

The Daily Dish

Reconciliation and Budget Process Reform

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Reconciliation and Budget Process Reform The federal budget is, charitably, a mess, with the deepest problems located in fast growing mandatory…

October 2, 2018

The Daily Dish

USMCA

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: USMCA To the surprise of many — myself included — the U.S. and Canada reached agreement Sunday to (choose your favorite) replace/modernize/rebrand/degrade…

#Eakinomics: Trump’s Regulatory Rollback

New in #Eakinomics – One of the Trump Administration’s least appreciated accomplishments is its rollback of costly regulations. AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin explains how they did it.

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