Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Friday’s April employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was widely perceived – including by Eakinomics – as (overdue) evidence of labor market cooling consistent with the Fed’s continued restrictive monetary policy. A few hours later, however, the Institute for Supply Management released its purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for Services. The overall PMI […]

Douglas Holtz-Eakin reports . In some circles, they may be interpreted as good news. They are not. The bottom lines are pretty simple:

Yesterday, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees issued their annual reports detailing the financial state of America's two largest entitlement programs. The reports echo past conclusions: Social Security and Medicare are still facing insolvency.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin Today the Treasury auctions 10-year notes and, as directed by the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013 , the

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin joins us to discuss Biden’s not-so-impressive regulatory milestone, Trump’s costly 10% tariff proposal, and the state of the economy.

On April 16 Freddie Mac sought approval from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to begin purchasing and guaranteeing closed-end home equity loans for borrowers where Freddie already owns the first mortgage.

With essentially all the major provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) sunsetting at the end of 2025, the next Congress faces a significant challenge in shaping the tax code for the future. Among the key issues is the tax treatment of pass-thru entities. The basic (highly simplified) issue is this. Suppose […]

One of the most maddening aspects of the Biden Administration's serial student loan giveaways – it is a real horse race – has been the hypocrisy of blaming the student loan system for myriad ills without making any real attempt to reform it. If it really did pose a threat, the administration would be obligated to work with Congress to pass (bipartisan) legislation putting it on a safer path. The lack of effort speaks volumes.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin The Wall Street Journal recently featured a piece entitled “ Stubbornly High Rents Prevent Fed From Finishing Inflation

The Biden climate plan has always been pretty simple. Build tons and tons and tons of renewable power generation and run every car, truck, factory, store, office, server farm, and house with it. Both of those visions have their issues. But a more pressing issue has been: How does one get the power from the generation location to the energy customer?