Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Among the myriad pre-presidency Trump pronouncements is his threat to levy 25-percent tariffs against all Canadian and Mexican goods and services unless those countries undertake greater efforts to secure their borders with the United States against flows of illegal drugs (especially fentanyl) and illegal migration. There are a couple of ways to think about this.

On Friday, President Biden blocked Nippon Steel’s acquisition of U.S. Steel. For an administration whose actions regularly are devoid of any reasonable policy rationale, it was a new craven nadir. There has already been a spate of critiques of the decision (see, especially, this spot-on Wall Street Journal editorial), but it bears repeating that this is a disgraceful act […]

Douglas Holtz-Eakin This past Sunday New York City its congestion pricing initiative.

In an (unplanned) tribute to the late President Jimmy Carter, Fred Ashton released Competition in Air Transportation. Ashton’s research comes in response to a Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Transportation (DOT) request for information on competition in air transportation. As Ashton notes: President Joseph Biden signed the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in […]

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Director of Fiscal Policy Jordan Haring join us to discuss the latest on the economy and Congress’ “Day One” priorities.

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses DOGE on MSNBC.

AAF’s Fred Ashton summarized Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Report for December thus: Job growth was much stronger than expected in December as employers added 256,000 new hires to their payrolls. The three-month average held steady at 170,000 for the second-straight month, the highest since May. For the year, employers added 2.2 million workers. […]

Douglas Holtz-Eakin The minimum wage debate – an annual event – is back, as many states have minimum wage hikes taking effect in January.

Yesterday yielded two more insights into the current economic conditions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report on the December Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicated that the top-line CPI rose 0.4 percent in December, and 2.9 percent over the year since December 2023. The 2.9-percent inflation rate is up 0.2 percentage points over November, largely due to a […]

At AAF we wake up each day asking three central questions: Is this policy good or bad; is this policy large or small; did Doug get his coffee yet? So, when President-elect and dealmaker-in-chief Trump restarted his campaign to acquire Greenland, I got more coffee, but Fred Ashton and Jacob Jensen