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Alex Brill
Alex Brill is a Washington economist who turns tax code arcana into arguments lawmakers actually use. He is the founder and CEO of Matrix Global Advisors, a boutique economic consulting firm, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Before going independent he was policy director and chief economist of the House Ways and Means Committee and served on the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He edits and writes books on tax policy, testifies before Congress, and works the seam between tax, health care, and fiscal policy.
Gordon Gray
Gordon Gray is a Washington economic policy hand who turned a decade of budget-table fluency into his own shop. He launched the nonpartisan Pinpoint Policy Institute as its executive director after more than ten years as vice president for economic policy at the American Action Forum. A veteran of Senate offices and two presidential-cycle campaigns, he translates federal budgets, tax law, and macroeconomic forecasts into testimony before Congress and commentary across The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, NPR, and Fox Business.
James Capretta
James C. Capretta is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he holds the Milton Friedman Chair and studies health care, entitlement programs, and the long fiscal arc of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. He spent more than 16 years inside the federal government, including as an associate director at the White House Office of Management and Budget from 2001 to 2004, where he was the lead OMB official on Medicare and Medicaid policy. A market-oriented reformer who argues for consumer choice and cost discipline over centralized control, he is the author of US Health Policy and Market Reforms: An Introduction and a prolific commentator on the math of America's safety-net programs.
Jason Furman
Jason Furman is an American economist who chaired President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017 and now teaches the famous Economics 10 introductory course at Harvard alongside David Laibson. The Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, he is one of the most widely quoted policy economists working today, dissecting tariffs, inflation, deficits and AI in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Project Syndicate and on his prolific X feed.
Marc Goldwein
Marc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), where he has become Washington's most-quoted referee of how much the federal government can afford. A two-degree Johns Hopkins economist who once ran track for the Blue Jays, he helped staff the Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission and the 2011 'Super Committee,' teaches economics on the side, and now spends his days scoring the price tag of nearly every major bill and campaign promise. He talks fast, deploys statistics faster, and has made a career of telling both parties the same unwelcome thing: the math does not add up.