Building a Pro-Growth Legal Immigration System

Immigration has always been part of the United States’ social fabric, but it has not been part of an economic growth strategy. A well-designed legal immigration policy can advance entrepreneurship, augment productivity gains, fill skills gaps, and combat demographically driven labor force declines.

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 […]

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.

Building a Pro-Growth Legal Immigration System

Immigration has always been part of the United States’ social fabric, but it has not been part of an economic growth strategy. A well-designed legal immigration policy can advance entrepreneurship, augment productivity gains, fill skills gaps, and combat demographically driven labor force declines.

June 18, 2019

The Daily Dish

Tracking the Housing Market

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Tracking the Housing Market The chatter on the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has risen recently, making it a good time to check…

June 17, 2019

Comments for the Record

Comments for the Department of Justice’s Competition in Television and Digital Advertising Workshop

Will Rinehart

Executive Summary The Department of Justice’s current inquiry into advertising underscores its importance to the digital ecosystem. But advertising…

Q1 2019

Housing Chart Book

Housing Chart Book Q1 2019

 

June 17, 2019

Week in Regulation

Significant Health Care Proposal Caps Off Otherwise Quiet Week

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

For most of last week, the pages of the Federal Register carried roughly $50 million in combined total costs – a fairly modest sum in the grand scheme…

June 17, 2019

The Daily Dish

The Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) Rule

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: The Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) Rule This past week the Trump Administration finalized its Health Reimbursement Arrangement…

June 14, 2019

Weekly Checkup

Reviewing the Trump Administration’s Health Insurance Actions

Christopher Holt

This week the Trump Administration finalized a rule expanding the allowable uses for Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs). This rule is the third action—following…

June 14, 2019

The Daily Dish

Who is Paying the China Tariffs?

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Who is Paying the China Tariffs? “Our country can take in $120 billion a year in tariffs, paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by…

June 13, 2019

Multimedia

The AAF Exchange — Ep. 04: Drug Pricing in the U.S.

AAF’s Director of Health Care Policy Chris Holt discusses the issue of high drug prices as well as several proposed solutions for it.   

June 13, 2019

Series

Addressing the United States’ Key Economic and Fiscal Issues

This piece is part of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Solutions Initiative 2019.   

June 13, 2019

The Daily Dish

Is Federal Debt a Problem? 

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Is Federal Debt a Problem?  There has been a wave of revisionist thinking on the undesirability of federal deficits and debt. Proponents…

June 12, 2019

The Daily Dish

T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Saga Continues

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Saga Continues While the T-Mobile/Sprint merger has won the approval of a majority of the Federal Communications Commission…

June 11, 2019

Insight

The Impact of Shifting Rebates to Catastrophic Coverage in Medicare Part D

Tara O'Neill Hayes

This reform would result in the mandatory rebate amount increasing with the drug’s price, which would provide an incentive against price inflation—an…

June 11, 2019

The Daily Dish

Real-Time Payments

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Real-Time Payments If you are like me, you don’t think too much about how your payments are processed. You write a check, swipe a credit…

June 11, 2019

Insight

Primer: What Is A Real-Time Payments System, And Who Should Operate It?

Thomas Wade

Executive Summary A real-time payment platform would benefit American consumers, particularly those living paycheck-to-paycheck who incur significant…

June 11, 2019

Research

The Total Cost of Trump’s Tariffs

Jacqueline Varas

The president’s newly enacted tariffs could increase nationwide consumer costs by $69 billion annually and threaten nearly $400 billion of exports and…

June 10, 2019

Week in Regulation

June Starts Off in the Cost Column

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

After a week in which there were no final rules with measurable economic effects, the first week of June brought a handful of regulations that affect the…

June 10, 2019

The Daily Dish

Inhale, Exhale, Don’t Panic. Worry.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

The May employment report — which showed “only” 75,000 new jobs — generated a lot of doomsday reporting, since the economy had averaged 223,000…

June 7, 2019

Weekly Checkup

The State of State Medicaid Expansion

Christopher Holt

Amid long stretches of quiet over the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), punctuated by promises from politicians to either overturn or defend the law…

June 7, 2019

U6 Fix

May Showers

Gordon Gray

The BLS reported that firms added 75,000 jobs to payrolls in the month of May. Private payrolls were up 90,000, while government shed 15,000 jobs. The…

June 7, 2019

The Daily Dish

May Jobs

Gordon Gray

The employment figures in the April jobs report reflected largely unalloyed strength. The 236,000 private-sector job gains were broadly distributed across…

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.

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