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Facing the Future

Radio Show & Podcast

About the Show

Hosted by Robert Bixby, Concord’s Senior Advisor and former Executive Director, the show dives into topics related to U.S. fiscal policy — like health care, taxes, national security, the national debt and more — with budget experts, industry leaders, elected officials and candidates for public office.

Listen to learn more about how the nation’s fiscal and economic challenges — and possible solutions — impact current and future generations.

The show is broadcast on Concord, New Hampshire radio station WKXL each week on Wednesdays at 3:00 p.m., with subsequent rebroadcasts on Saturdays at 9:00 a.m. and Sundays at 11:00 a.m.

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This week on Facing the Future, we got a long-term federal budget outlook from Dr. Kent Smetters, faculty director for the Penn Wharton Budget Model. The well respected budget model recently released its latest  long-term federal budget outlook, and in…

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This week on Facing the Future, we spoke to two authors, Alex Pollock and Howard Adler, who have written a new book called “Surprised Again: The COVID Crisis and the New Market Bubble”. The book uses the experience of the…

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This week on Facing the Future, we take a detour up to New Hampshire as we start 2023. We are about a year away from the next New Hampshire Presidential primary. But the Democratic National Committee (DNC) recently voted -…

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This week on Facing the Future, we got the entire Concord Coalition staff together  to discuss the major federal budget and economic developments of 2022. And it was a doozy of a year, with two things we haven’t seen in…

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This week on Facing the Future, we look at some of the thorny short and long-term tax questions facing Congress in the waning days of 2022. To help us sift through the morass of tax policy options and how they…

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People around the country of all political stripes have expressed  the concern that Presidential power has been expanding beyond its constitutional scope in recent years. Our guest on Facing the Future this week, Molly Reynolds, a senior fellow in governance…

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This week on Facing the Future, we hear excerpts from a special event held recently at the National Press Club to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Concord Coalition’s founding. We convened an all-star panel of leading experts each of…

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This week, we have a special Thanksgiving edition of Facing the Future, taken from a recent Concord Coalition panel discussion held at Fresno State University in California, moderated by Concord field director Phil Smith. Phil and the panelists focused on…

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This week on Facing the Future, we had the privilege once again to welcome Dr. Michael Osterholm back on the program. Dr. Osterholm is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota,…

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This week on Facing the Future, we had an all-star panel of Congressional staff veterans taking a look at the results of this year’s midterm elections and what, if any, discernible impact they will have on some of the critical…

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This week on Facing the Future, Tori Gorman filled in for Bob Bixby as host and spoke with influential economist Claudia Sahm. Claudia’s resume includes important advisory roles with the Federal Reserve and the Council of Economic Advisors for the…

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This week on Facing the Future, we hear excerpts from a panel discussion I participated in at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin focusing on America’s long-term fiscal and economic outlook. It was…

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