American Action Forum

08/21/2026

Russia is being sanctioned, yet billions in oil revenue continue to flow. The answer? A “shadow fleet” to minimize detection. Here’s how it works, and what can be done.

Eakinomics is aware that the federal debt just topped $40 trillion and that newspaper pages are filled with depictions of doom and devastation. Good. But not here. Eakinomics was an early adopter of the national-demise-by-debt belief system and has spilled more ink over the red ink than practically....

08/21/2026

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin joins us to discuss inflation, interest rates, and intractable debt.

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin joins us to discuss inflation, in...

08/20/2026

President Trump delayed planned 50% tariffs on $20B of Canadian imports under the never-before-used Section 338, claiming a deal was near. Canada says otherwise, leaving another Saturday deadline looming.

Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 allows the president to impose tariffs of up to 50 percent in response to discriminatory trade actions by a country. Section 338 had never been used until President Trump announced duties on Canada in response to its discriminating against U.S. autos, alcohol, a...

08/20/2026

Here’s the Weekly Economic Tracker. Douglas Holtz-Eakin reacts to this week’s economic news.

08/20/2026

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin joins us to discuss inflation, interest rates, and intractable debt.
https://www.americanactionforum.org/multimedia/aaf-exchange-ep-197-inflation-interest-rates-and-intractable-debt/

08/19/2026

The U.S. Federal Debt has hit $40 trillion. Douglas Holtz-Eakin reacts.

08/19/2026

Long-term bond yields are surging worldwide, with 30-year U.S. Treasury yields reaching their highest level since 2007. High government debt, low national saving, and strong private investment are pushing rates higher.

The big story yesterday was long-term bonds. As Bloomberg put it: Sovereign borrowing rates are surging around the world. Yields on 30-year US Treasuries rose to the highest since 2007 this week, while French borrowing costs hit the loftiest since 2008 and their German peers traded at 2011 levels. E...

08/19/2026

The U.S. Treasury stepped into the currency markets to prop up the Japanese yen with its euro holdings. Why? AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin shares his thoughts.

https://www.americanactionforum.org/multimedia/aaf-exchange-ep-197-inflation-interest-rates-and-intractable-debt/

08/18/2026

Trump’s deregulatory push has produced $1.2T in estimated cost reductions under EO 14192. FinCEN also finalized its beneficial ownership rule, making its 2025 rollback of 99.8% of compliance burdens permanent.

A signature of the first Trump Administration was its efforts to reduce the federal regulatory burden. And after the onslaught of regulatory costs by the Biden Administration, there were certainly high hopes for this Trump Administration to control red tape. AAF’s primary vehicle for tracking acti...

08/18/2026

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses the latest Consumer Price Index report.

https://www.americanactionforum.org/multimedia/aaf-exchange-ep-197-inflation-interest-rates-and-intractable-debt/