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 hear from labor economist Betsey Stevenson, former member of the Obama administration’s Council of Economic Advisors, currently a professor of public policy and economics at the Gerald Ford R. Ford School of Public…
This week on Facing the Future, we focus on the economic and federal budget impact of climate change, with excerpts from a recent panel discussion on the topic that The Concord Coalition sponsored together with the League of Conservation Voters…
This week on Facing the Future we touched the “third rail” of American politics, Social Security, and lived to tell about it. Of course, none of us is running for public office. Our guest was Andrew Biggs, senior fellow at…
This week on Facing the Future, we speak with Dr. Phillip Swagel, the director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO has just put out its latest 10 year budget outlook that shows bad trends getting worse over the…
This week on Facing the Future, we check back in with professor Adam Stulberg, the Sam Nunn Chair in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech University. Professor Stulberg has expertise in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, international…
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…
