ACCF Scholars

ACCF Scholars

ACCF Scholar: NATO Needs More Guns and Less Butter

The Wall Street Journal
But change will be difficult, and the magnitude of what needs to be done is sobering. The U.S. currently spends 3.2% of gross domestic...

ACCF Scholar: Investing in American Workers

On C-SPAN's Book TV, Former CEA Chairman and ACCF Scholar R. Glenn Hubbard discusses why government and business will need to invest more in...

Kevin Hassett on Biden Economy

Former CEA Chairman and ACCF Scholar Kevin Hassett discusses the Biden economy on Fox Business. Watch the latest video at foxbusiness.com

ACCF Scholar John Taylor on the Fed and curve on inflation

On Bloomberg's "What'd You Miss?" John Taylor, professor of economics at Stanford University and ACCF Scholar, says the Federal Reserve is behind the curve...

New Book by ACCF Scholar: The Wall and the Bridge

Yale University Press
Free-market economists often have noted that there are winners and losers in a competitive capitalist world. The question of how to deal with the...

ACCF Scholar: Trump ended WTO dispute settlement. Trade remedies are needed...

PIIE
ABSTRACT Unhappy with the rulings of the WTO dispute settlement system, which disproportionately targeted US use of trade remedies, the United States ended the entire...

Specific steps to improve the fairness and sustainability of Medicaid’s financing...

American Enterprise Institute
In a prior article (Warshawsky and Marchand, 2017), a colleague and I put forward some broad proposals to improve the system of financing long-term...

Even my business-school students have doubts about capitalism

The Atlantic
ACCF Scholar R. Glenn Hubbard: "A generation raised amid major economic turmoil needs more reassurance that an open economy won’t leave people and communities behind."

Biden Can Whip Inflation and Build Back Better

The Wall Street Journal
Rising prices are a serious problem, but so are the chronic challenges that the bill aims to confront. The U.S. economy faces multiple challenges. The...

ACCF Scholar: Biden Has Trouble at Home, Too

The Wall Street Journal
The president will have to persuade progressives to save his infrastructure bill. In a speech reflecting on the 40th year of her reign, Britain’s Queen...

Retirement Policy Experts Join Bipartisan ACCF Center for Policy Research Board...

Washington, DC – The American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research (ACCF-CPR) announced today that two respected economists and experts on retirement...

ACCF Scholar: The Biden Budget’s Arithmetic Problem

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

ACCF Scholar: Biden Wants to Spend, Not Invest

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

Electric Power Research Institute Chief Nuclear Officer Dr. Rita Baranwal Joins...

Washington, DC – The American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research (ACCF-CPR) announced today that Dr. Rita Baranwal has joined the organization’s...

ACCF Scholar Ken Medlock on Texas Energy Crisis

ACCF Scholar Ken Medlock offers a balanced perspective on the current Energy Crisis brought on by the unprecedented cold weather. Resilience and Reliability go...

ACCF Scholars Weigh in On Biden Rescue Plan

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...