Blog posts
Fallout From The Russian Invasion
March 10, 2022This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Communications Director Av Harris and I discussed the military and economic fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Inflating the Budget, and Three Healthcare Myths
March 03, 2022This week on Facing the Future, we focus on healthcare costs and inflation, two factors that have an enormous impact on the federal budget and our national debt. In the first pa
Leadership in Time of Crisis
February 23, 2022This week on Facing the Future, we got a rare opportunity to speak about leadership in a time of crisis with a real scholar of presidential politics: Professor David Gergen of Ha
Acting Short and Thinking Long
February 17, 2022This week on Facing the Future, we take a deep dive into the broken federal budget appropriations process in Congress with journalist David Lerman, editor of Congressional Quarte
The Concord Coalition Hits the Road with a 30th Anniversary Campus Tour
February 10, 2022We’re on the road again!
A Blue Dog Keeps Barking
February 09, 2022This week on Facing the Future, we listen to a veteran Blue Dog Democrat bark one more time. That would be Congressman Jim Cooper (D-TN) who has represented his Nashville area di
Total Federal Debt Reaches $30 Trillion -- and Counting
February 03, 2022If you blinked this week, you probably missed that the total federal debt reached $30 trillion—an historic high.
COVID Makes a Mess of Economic Data
February 03, 2022This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Policy Director Tori Gorman and I spoke with Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody’s Analytics, to help us parse through recent
A 'New Normal' for COVID-19?
January 26, 2022This week on Facing the Future, we spoke with Dr.
Inflation: Here Today, Here Tomorrow?
January 20, 2022This week on Facing the Future, we discussed the inflation outlook with Jason Furman, former chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors from 2013-17, and now a profess