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.
In honor of the July 4th holiday, this week on Facing the Future, we are once again running our recent program with David Gergen, advisor to four US presidents (Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton), CNN political commentator, and professor at Harvard’s…
This week on Facing the Future, I am reminded of the words of Willie Nelson: “Turn out the lights, the party’s over….” After 15 years of extremely low interest rates following the financial collapse of 2008 and the great recession…
This week on Facing the Future, it’s time for the Baby Boomer generation to step aside and let Gen-X, Millennials, and Gen-Z lead the way towards solving some of our country’s most pressing problems. So says David Gergen, advisor to…
This week on Facing the Future, we focus on the persistently lingering COVID 19 pandemic, as we appear to be in another national surge of infections, and have recently surpassed 1,000,000 deaths from the pandemic in the United States. The pandemic…
This week on Facing the Future, we spoke with one of the top experts on Congressional process and economic policy – Jon Lieber, managing director for the Eurasia Group’s United States Practice. Lieber has extensive experience in top policy positions…
This week on Facing the Future, we go back in for a deeper dive with the voices of our future leaders and how they would address the growing challenge of putting the federal budget on a more sustainable path…