The Green New Deal: Scope, Scale, and Implications

The Green New Deal is expensive. Its further expansion of the government’s role the most basic decisions of daily life, however, would likely have a more lasting and damaging impact than its enormous price tag.

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 […]

Highlights of FY2020 President’s Budget

Compared to its own baseline, the President’s Budget makes essentially no changes in revenues.

Approaches to Regulating Technology – From Privacy to A.I.

The United States’ light-touch regulatory regime has fostered a dynamic tech sector, but in the past year the regulatory climate around technology companies has changed dramatically. This volume of essays explores how policymakers should approach tech regulation. Watch the event

The Green New Deal: Scope, Scale, and Implications

The Green New Deal is expensive. Its further expansion of the government’s role the most basic decisions of daily life, however, would likely have a more lasting and damaging impact than its enormous price tag.

March 21, 2019

Research

The Fiscal Implications of the FAMILY Act: How New Paid Leave Benefits Increase Leave-Taking and Drive Up Estimated Program Costs

Ben Gitis

Had the FAMILY Act been in effect in 2017, 45.5 million workers would have claimed paid leave benefits, at a cost of $203.2 billion to $226.8 billion

March 21, 2019

The Daily Dish

Fostering 5G 

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Fostering 5G  Germany is suddenly the center of tech news with its announcement of spectrum auctions intended to foster the next generation…

March 20, 2019

The Daily Dish

H-4 Visas and Immigration Policy

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: H-4 Visas and Immigration Policy It has been a bit under a week, or roughly 5 Trump years, since the president vetoed the Congressional…

March 20, 2019

Research

The Economic Value of Work Permits for H-4 Visa Holders

Jacqueline Varas

Executive Summary In 2015, the Obama Administration granted employment authorization to select H-4 visa holders, who are the spouses of high-skilled…

March 19, 2019

The Daily Dish

Next Steps for the Fed

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Next Steps for the Fed The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) begins a 2-day meeting today that will be capped off by a statement, economic…

March 18, 2019

Week in Regulation

Emergency Order Punctuates Otherwise Quiet Week

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

It was yet another net-regulatory week in the pages of the Federal Register – but just barely. Only four final rules had any quantified cost or paperwork…

March 18, 2019

The Daily Dish

European Minimum Wage Experiments

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: European Minimum Wage Experiments Greece, where the unemployment rate is 18.5 percent, and Spain, where it is 14.1 percent, are raising their…

March 15, 2019

Weekly Checkup

Budget Week!

Tara O'Neill Hayes

You may have noticed (but possibly also forgotten already) that the president released his fiscal year 2020 budget this week. The health care headlines…

March 15, 2019

The Daily Dish

How to Think About Tech Regulation

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: How to Think About Tech Regulation Today AAF releases How to Think About Tech Regulation, a volume of essays edited by AAF’s Will Rinehart, and…

March 15, 2019

Series

Approaches to Regulating Technology – From Privacy to A.I.

The United States' light-touch regulatory regime has fostered a dynamic tech sector, but in the past year the regulatory climate around technology companies…

March 14, 2019

Testimony

FSOC Nonbank Designations

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Testimony to the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs * The views expressed here are my own and not those of the American…

March 14, 2019

Multimedia

2019 Tax Refunds

Gordon Gray

AAF's Director of Fiscal Policy Gordon Gray clears up some of the confusion surrounding tax refunds in 2019.

March 14, 2019

The Daily Dish

2019 Tax Refunds 

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: 2019 Tax Refunds  Washington politics and arithmetic are distant acquaintances. But the discussion surrounding refunds during the 2019…

March 13, 2019

Series

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…

March 13, 2019

The Daily Dish

Multifamily Housing and the GSEs

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Multifamily Housing and the GSEs Discussion of the housing government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, usually…

March 13, 2019

Insight

Fannie and Freddie Increase Their Role in the Multifamily Market

Thomas Wade

Executive Summary Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two housing-finance government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), provide and secure loans for both single-family…

March 12, 2019

Multimedia

(CLIP) AAF’s Douglas Holtz-Eakin on President Trump’s Budget

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

American Action Forum President Doug Holtz-Eakin discusses President Trump's Budget on CNN. (3-11-19)

March 12, 2019

Insight

Four Reasons Why Senator Warren’s Public Utility Proposal Will Backfire

Will Rinehart

Senator Elizabeth Warren recently offered a new proposal to break up tech companies, which she is calling platform utility regulation. If put in place…

March 12, 2019

The Daily Dish

Disclosing Negotiated Hospital Prices

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Disclosing Negotiated Hospital Prices When I read The Wall Street Journal article that a proposed rule by the Department of Health…

March 11, 2019

Insight

Highlights of FY2020 President’s Budget

Gordon Gray

Compared to its own baseline, the President’s Budget makes essentially no changes in revenues.

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 […]

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