Douglas Holtz-Eakin - Page 1
Former Director, CBODouglas Holtz-Eakin is President of the American Action Forum, a center-right policy institute in Washington, D.C. He has a distinguished record as an academic, policy adviser, and strategist. He is also a commissioner on the Congressionally-chartered Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Since 2001, he has served in a variety of important policy positions. During 2001-2002, he was the Chief Economist of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (where he had also served during 1989-1990 as a Senior Staff Economist). At CEA he helped to formulate policies addressing the 2000-2001 recession and the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. From 2003-2005 he was the 6th Director of the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO provides non-partisan budgetary and policy analysis to the U.S. Congress. During his tenure CBO assisted as Congress addressed numerous, notably the 2003 tax cuts (JGTRRA), the Medicare prescription drug bill (MMA), and Social Security reform. During 2007 and 2008 he was Director of Domestic and Economic Policy for the John McCain presidential campaign. <br /> <br /> Dr. Holtz-Eakin has held positions in several Washington-based think tanks. He was Senior Fellow at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (2007-2008), and the Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and the Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (2006). He has also been a visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, and American Family Business Foundation.<br /> <br /> Dr. Holtz-Eakin built an international reputation as a scholar doing research in areas of applied economic policy, econometric methods, and entrepreneurship. He began his career at Columbia University in 1985 and moved to Syracuse University from 1990 to 2001. At Syracuse, he became Trustee Professor of Economics at the Maxwell School, Chairman of the Department of Economics and Associate Director of the Center for Policy Research. <br /> <br /> Dr. Holtz-Eakin serves on the Boards of the Tax Foundation and the National Economists Club, and the Research Advisory Board of the Center for Economic Development.
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Revenge of the budget nerds
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The president’s budget is disappointing, unsurprising, and dangerous
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The president is demanding that seniors fund his American Jobs Act
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The EPA shouldn’t regulate greenhouse gas emissions
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The looming budget debate
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Puppies, kittens, sunshine and infrastructure
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Leadership and facts, please
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OK, I’m confused
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Helping small businesses: from the dull to the dangerous
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Getting it wrong on small business
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Secretary Geithner wages class warfare at the expense of collective well-being
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Unpopular, not mysterious
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Taxation in the national interest
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Taxing banks, no thanks
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An opportunity for tax reform?
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Employing a fresh approach to jobs