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In this episode of the AAF Exchange, AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses what it might look like if this year’s presidential candidates had anything close to an economic and fiscal policy agenda.

AAF products mentioned in today’s episode:

• In “The IRA After One Year,” Holtz-Eakin walks through the Inflation Reduction Act’s lack of accomplishments on its first anniversary.
• In “No Amount of Hard Work Will Save the IRA Minimum Tax,” Holtz-Eakin examines why the book income minimum tax included in the IRA can’t succeed.

• In “Fitch Downgrades the U.S.,” Holtz-Eakin discusses Fitch’s downgrade of U.S. Treasury debt from AAA to AA+.

• In “Highlights of CBO’s Long-Term Budget Outlook 2023,” Vice President for Economic Policy Gordon Gray walks through the Congressional Budget Office’s newly updated Long-Term Budget Outlook.

• In “The Fairness Will Continue Until Morale Improves,” Gray explains why one attempt to reform social security is unserious.

• In “The Future of America’s Entitlements: What You Need to Know About the Medicare and Social Security Trustees Reports,” Gray and Health Care Policy Analyst Jackson Hammond list the highlights of the Medicare and Social Security Trustees Reports.

• In “Expensing and High-quality Tax Policy,” Holtz-Eakin explores the benefits of restoring expensing as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act phases out.

• In “Regulatory Update,” Holtz-Eakin takes an account of the Biden Administration’s regulatory burden.

• In “The Biden Administration’s Spring 2023 Unified Agenda of Regulatory Actions,” Director of Regulatory Policy Dan Goldbeck considers what the Spring 2023 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions shows about the scope of the administrative state and the Biden Administration’s priorities.

• In “Biden Administration Goes Past $400 Billion in Final Rule Costs,” Goldbeck examines the past week’s regulatory impacts and changes.

• Subscribe to The Week in Regulation for weekly analysis of newly proposed and final rules, including their cost.

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