Douglas Holtz-Eakin is president of the American Action Forum. He was previously president of DHE Consulting, an economic and policy consulting firm. During 2007 and 2008, Holtz-Eakin was director of domestic and economic policy for John McCain’s presidential campaign. Prior to that, he directed the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and was the Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Holtz-Eakin was director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office from 2003 to 2005. He serves on the boards of the Tax Foundation, National Economists Club, and Center for a Responsible Federal Budget and the Research Advisory Board of the Center for Economic Development.
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Big IdeaI’m not sure the populism which has been so politically successful on the right is delivering for the people that put [the populists] into power.Douglas Holtz-Eakin
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