The AAF Exchange

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]
AAF Exchange episode 20

The AAF Exchange

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

February 26, 2020

Insight

Presidential Candidate Bloomberg’s Higher Education Plan

Isabel Soto, Tom Lee

Democratic presidential candidate and former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg recently released his plan for higher education. His proposal largely…

February 26, 2020

Multimedia

The AAF Exchange — Ep. 21: Trump’s FY21 Budget

Gordon Gray

AAF’s Director of Fiscal Policy Gordon Gray discusses President Trump’s budget for fiscal year 2021 and the overall budget process.   

February 26, 2020

The Daily Dish

Streamlining Nuclear Approvals

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Streamlining Nuclear Approvals "I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is." – Greta Thunberg, World Economic Forum…

February 25, 2020

Insight

Opportunities for NEPA Reform at the NRC

Dan Bosch

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The current environmental review process at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is long and costly, deterring investment in…

February 25, 2020

The Daily Dish

Stock Market Déjà Vu

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Stock Market Déjà Vu Markets tanked across the world yesterday in response to further news about the spread and severity of the coronavirus.…

February 24, 2020

Week in Regulation

Railroad and Health Care Rules Mark Short Week

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

With only four work days due to Presidents’ Day, it is hardly shocking that there was only limited action in the Federal Register last week. Most of…

February 24, 2020

The Daily Dish

How to Tax the Rich

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: How to Tax the Rich The New York Times sums it up: “One Guaranteed Winner in the Democratic Primary: Plans to Tax the Rich.” This…

February 21, 2020

Weekly Checkup

The Real Cost of BernieCare

Christopher Holt

This week the Democratic presidential aspirants gathered in Nevada for yet another debate. Most of the coverage has focused on the debate’s human piñata…

February 21, 2020

The Daily Dish

Growth, Poverty, and the Safety Net

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Growth, Poverty, and the Safety Net  The New York Times published a nice piece entitled, “Millions of Americans Have Moved Off Assistance.…

February 20, 2020

Op-Ed

Assessing the Administration’s Economic Strategy

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

From the postwar period to 2007, rapid economic expansion permitted the standard of living to double in one working career — but after the 2008 economic…

February 20, 2020

The Daily Dish

Long-Term Care Costs

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Long-Term Care Costs Making good policy also good politics is hard. But sometimes good policy is just hard all by itself. Designing a tax…

February 19, 2020

Insight

Understanding the Latest “Big Tech” Antitrust Investigation News

Jennifer Huddleston

The Federal Trade Commission recently requested information from the largest tech companies about their acquisition of smaller companies over the last…

February 19, 2020

Multimedia

(CLIP) Sanders or Bloomberg — CNBC

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses the potential economic impact of recent Democratic policy proposal and who is responsible for economic growth…

February 19, 2020

The Daily Dish

Bloomberg on the Housing GSEs

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Bloomberg on the Housing GSEs Yesterday, presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg put out his proposals for financial services, with the…

February 18, 2020

Week in Regulation

A Pair of Deregulatory Measures Drives Week

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

In an otherwise uninspired week, two cost-cutting rules stood out. One, from the Small Business Administration (SBA), deals with loans to small businesses.…

February 18, 2020

Research

The Ballooning Costs of Long-Term Care

Tara O'Neill Hayes, Sara Kurtovic

This study estimates that in 2030, LTC costs will more than double and may reach as high as $2.5 trillion.

February 18, 2020

The Daily Dish

China, Again

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: China, Again The Trump Administration is considering halting jet-engine sales to China. Specifically, The Wall Street Journal reports that…

February 14, 2020

Weekly Checkup

The Drawbacks of the Drug-Scheduling Regime

Andrew Strohman

Last Thursday, the president signed S. 3201, extending the Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) temporary ban on fentanyl analogues such as carfentanil for…

February 14, 2020

The Daily Dish

The TCJA Debate Simplified

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: The TCJA Debate Simplified Earlier this week, I testified before the House Committee on Ways and Means regarding the “Disappearing Corporate…

February 13, 2020

Multimedia

#Eakinomics: Raising the Minimum Wage

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses the effects of raising the minimum wage on job and wage growth.

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 […]

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