Economic Policy

Taxing the rich won’t come close to funding the new social spending the White House is proposing.

Dr. Pinar Cebi Wilber speaks with TRT World on the economics and politics of President Biden's proposed $6 Trillion federal budget.

ACCF Scholar R. Glenn Hubbard notes Biden's plan draws down private capital to fund current consumption, not actual infrastructure

President Biden’s ambitious policy agenda continues with a large $2 trillion infrastructure plan which not only plans to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure but, at...

During the last year, millions of working adults have been forced into a dilemma: earn a paycheck or leave their jobs to care for...

On February 24 the ACCF hosted a webinar with Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV). Senator Manchin has held his seat since 2010 when it was left...

ACCF Scholars join America's Newsroom to weigh in on President-Elect Biden's "American Rescue Plan." See Former CBO director Doug Holtz-Eakin and Harvard economics professor...

Statement from ACCF Board of Advisors Member Sol Trujillo

Janet Yellen has promised to make fighting climate change a priority as Treasury secretary, spurring hope among activists she will put the issue at...

Martin Wolf has raised several significant points in his article “A light shines in the gloom cast by Covid” (Opinion, December 2). Most importantly,...

ACCF Scholar Greg Mankiw notes that economists don’t entirely know why rates have been so low for so long, or whether they will turn out to be mainly a boon or a danger.

Excerpt November 30, 2020, Paper: "The last generation has witnessed an epochal decline in real interest rates in the United States and around the world...

Amid the pandemic, political uncertainty is the last thing the American economy needs. While the president has every right to challenge voting results, his refusal to concede and initiate an orderly transfer of power, especially without credible evidence of fraud or vote manipulation, is creating unnecessary levels of uncertainty.

ACC Board of Advisors Member Karl Rove notes recounts occasionally change margins in the hundreds, never in the tens of thousands.

The irony is striking. While Donald Trump and Joe Biden have been busy bashing Beijing in the run-up to the presidential election, the Chinese...

Former US President John F. Kennedy famously proclaimed that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” In a growing economy, the absolute well-being of those...