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.
This week on Facing the Future, we check in once again with Ben Ritz, the director of the Center for Funding America’s Future at the Progressive Policy Institute. Ben has written a number of things recently including an opinion piece…
This week on Facing the Future, we revisited the issue of immigration that nearly all economists agree will have an enormous impact on both economic growth and the federal budget over the next 30 years. With declining birth rates in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
