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 […]

The AAF Exchange

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

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 […]

Analyzing Plans To Reallocate C-Band for 5G Deployment

The increased demand for mobile data and the future deployment of 5G is compelling regulators to look for new satellite spectrum to support these services. The C-Band is a strong candidate.
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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 […]

November 13, 2019

Insight

What Should Budget Process Reform Look Like? Reviewing the Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act

Gordon Gray

The Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act substantially reforms the federal budget cycle – including by formalizing biennial budgeting.

November 13, 2019

Multimedia

The AAF Exchange — Ep. 15: Medicare for All

Christopher Holt

AAF’s Director of Health Care Policy Christopher Holt discusses why Medicare for All is the center of many presidential campaigns and what could happen…

November 13, 2019

Insight

Projecting Regulatory Savings: Top Five Agencies for FY2019

Dan Bosch

The Trump Administration is expected to soon release its final accounting for the fiscal year (FY) 2019 regulatory budget. As a reminder, the administration…

November 13, 2019

Research

H.R. 1346 – The Medicare Buy-in and Health Care Stabilization Act of 2019

Jonathan Keisling

In recent months, several lawmakers have released various versions of a Medicare buy-in proposal. Nearly all of them include allowing people aged 50 to…

November 13, 2019

The Daily Dish

Real Reforms to Higher Education

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Real Reforms to Higher Education Colleges are facing mounting criticism on both sides of the ledger. Some question whether a college education…

November 12, 2019

Week in Regulation

A Busy, Costly Week

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

The first full week of November was a relatively active one on the regulatory front. Federal agencies produced 18 rulemakings that had some sort of quantifiable…

November 12, 2019

Research

Options for Innovation and Reform in Higher Education

Isabel Soto, Tom Lee

Executive Summary Higher education is facing a confluence of challenges: tuition inflation, mounting student debt, and decreasing value in a changing…

November 12, 2019

The Daily Dish

Trump Addresses the Economic Club of New York

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Trump Addresses the Economic Club of New York Today the president addresses the Economic Club of New York, and everyone is looking for information…

November 8, 2019

Weekly Checkup

Medicare for All: Ascendant, yes, but popular?

Christopher Holt

Late last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren released her Medicare for All (M4A) proposal. With both Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders — who is still the…

November 8, 2019

The Daily Dish

Update on Productivity Growth

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Update on Productivity Growth Wednesday the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released some bad news: “Nonfarm business sector labor productivity…

November 7, 2019

The Daily Dish

Economics and Elizabeth Warren

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Economics and Elizabeth Warren Senator and presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren released last week the financing half of her Medicare for…

November 6, 2019

The Daily Dish

Update on GSE Reform

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Update on GSE Reform Over a decade into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac being in conservatorship, the logjam on reform of the two housing government-sponsored…

November 5, 2019

Insight

Housing Finance Reform under FHFA Director Calabria

Thomas Wade

Executive Summary Despite congressional action on the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac appearing as unlikely as ever, 2019…

November 5, 2019

The Daily Dish

Markets as Political Mechanisms

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Markets as Political Mechanisms Many are befuddled by economists and policymakers who favor private-sector market mechanisms over government…

November 4, 2019

Week in Regulation

A Net-Cost Week Due to Curious Cases

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

Coming off the heels of the prior week’s deregulatory surge, this past week swung back in the cost-adding direction. But there’s a twist: The two main…

November 4, 2019

The Daily Dish

Setting the Stage for 5G Wireless

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Setting the Stage for 5G Wireless There are a lot of vague hopes for better infrastructure, but one very concrete issue is the foundation…

November 1, 2019

Weekly Checkup

Preexisting Conditions and Political Gamesmanship

Christopher Holt

This week Senate Democrats forced a vote attempting to overturn Trump Administration guidance issued last year that, they feared, could undermine protections…

November 1, 2019

U6 Fix

No Tricks, Lots of Treats

Gordon Gray

U.S. firms and government added 128,000 jobs in October, with private firms adding 131,000 workers and government subtracting 3,000 workers. The goods-producing…

November 1, 2019

The Daily Dish

October Jobs

Gordon Gray

The September jobs report delivered a mixed bag, with healthy payroll gains and strong household data but with disappointing earnings in some specific…

October 31, 2019

The Daily Dish

NAEP? Nope! 

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: NAEP? Nope!  The Department of Education has released the 2019 results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Sigh. The…

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