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.

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 […]

The Immigration Opportunity: Facts, Myths, and Reforms

Everybody wants a stronger economy: growing wages, more jobs, entrepreneurial vigor, and companies that are the envy of the world. Legal immigration can contribute to all of these goals. The United States does not need to fear immigrants, but it should reform the immigration system to focus on economic skills rather than family ties. Doing […]

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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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.

January 19, 2022

Insight

The Ticking Clocks of Build Back Better

Gordon Gray

The Build Back Better Act (BBBA) is a reconciliation bill, which means it is very much time sensitive.

January 19, 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…

January 19, 2022

Research

“Year One”: Assessing the Biden Regulatory Record Against Recent Administrations

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Biden Administration capped off its first full year in office with more than $201 billion in regulatory costs and approximately…

January 19, 2022

The Daily Dish

Rethinking the Pandemic Strategy

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

There was more good medical news yesterday when Pfizer announced laboratory evidence that Paxlovid, its oral COVID-19 therapy, was effective against the…

January 18, 2022

Insight

The Effect of Congressional Antitrust Legislation on Consumers

Jeffrey Westling, Juan Londoño

Executive Summary Technology firms often act as both market participants and market operators, drawing concern from Congress that these companies…

January 18, 2022

Week in Regulation

Transmission Lines and French Dressing Highlight Quiet Week

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

The past week of regulatory activity was as chilled as a typical mid-January weather report. There were nine rulemakings with some measurable economic…

January 18, 2022

The Daily Dish

Net Neutrality in 2022​

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF’s Jeff Westling recently produced a refresher on the policy issues surrounding net neutrality, cleverly entitled “Net Neutrality Refresher.”…

January 14, 2022

Weekly Checkup

The BBBA Threatens Medical Innovation and American Competitiveness

Christopher Holt

As Congress turns its attention toward (failing to enact) other parts of President Biden’s agenda, the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) appears to be dead…

January 14, 2022

The Daily Dish

Dodging a Potential Labor Market Bullet

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

The big news is that the Supreme Court struck down the Biden Administration’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rule requiring workers…

January 13, 2022

Insight

The Potential Impacts of the Build Back Better Act’s Drug Policies

Christopher Holt, Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Executive Summary There is a perception that the drug pricing proposals in the House-passed Build Back Better Act (BBBA) are more modest and less threatening…

January 13, 2022

The Daily Dish

Because I Have To…

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Certain themes run through Eakinomics – the chronic abdication of policy leadership by Taylor Swift and the resultant bankrupt drift of the National…

January 12, 2022

Insight

The Debate on Universal Service Fund Reform: A Primer

Juan Londoño

Executive Summary The Universal Service Fund (USF) is a decades-old program that aims to ensure that all Americans have access to essential telecommunication…

January 12, 2022

The Daily Dish

Awaiting the Inflation Report

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will release the December report on the Consumer Price Index (CPI). By the numbers, the 2021 track record to…

January 11, 2022

Insight

Assessing the Stop Corporate Capture Act

Dan Bosch

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Progressives in Congress introduced the Stop Corporate Capture Act in December 2021. While the bill’s name implies a goal of…

January 11, 2022

Insight

Net Neutrality Refresher

Jeffrey Westling

Executive Summary “Net neutrality” is the idea that Internet users should be free to access the content and services of their choosing, and that…

January 11, 2022

The Daily Dish

A JOLT to the Labor Market – Workers Quitting

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

The financial news is filled with stories about workers quitting their jobs, most recently about the November record of 4.5 million workers leaving their…

January 10, 2022

Week in Regulation

2022 Starts Off With Potential Cost Reductions

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

Coming off the preceding week that brought eye-popping regulatory cost increases, the first week of 2022 rang in the new year in the opposite direction…

January 10, 2022

The Daily Dish

Distributional Impacts of Inflation

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Over the holiday season, University of Chicago professor and former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee took to the pages of The New…

January 7, 2022

Weekly Checkup

The Regeneron Controversy Is a Window into a Medicare for All World

Christopher Holt

Just before Christmas, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it would suspend shipments of several—though not all—monoclonal…

January 7, 2022

U6 Fix

A Wintry Mix

Gordon Gray

The headline payroll number disappointed again, but much like November, the household survey told a different story. The December jobs report is a good…

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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