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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 examined President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget request, submitted to Congress on Monday, March 11. Our first guest was Dr. Josh Gordon, Director of Health Policy at the Committee for a Responsible Federal…

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This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Policy Director Tori Gorman and Chief Economist Steve Robinson joined me to preview President Biden’s State of the Union Address and his Fiscal Year 2025 budget. In looking at the upcoming budget,…

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This week on Facing the Future, we discussed the drawn-out Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations process. Our guest was Bill Hoagland, Senior Vice President of the Bipartisan Policy Center and former Republican staff director of the Senate Budget Committee. He gave…

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This week on Facing the Future, we looked at the interaction of fiscal and monetary policy with Dr. Thomas Hoenig, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and a member of the Federal Reserve System’s Open Market…

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This week on Facing the Future, our guest was Dr. Phillip Swagel, Director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO just released its Budget and Economic Outlook for 2024-2034, which extends budget projections and economic forecasts over the…

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This week on Facing the Future, we looked at the latest economic numbers with a focus on jobs, wages, and interest rates. Our guest was Gordon Gray, Vice President for Economic Policy at the American Action Forum. Concord Coalition policy…

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This week on Facing the Future, we examined President Biden’s pledge not to raise taxes on households with annual income below $400,000. Our guest was Ben Ritz, Director of the Center for Funding America’s Future at the Progressive Policy Institute…

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This week on Facing the Future, we looked at the congressional tax agenda, both in the next few weeks and into 2025 when a number of provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) are set to expire…

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This week on Facing the Future our guest was Rachel Snyderman, Director of Economic Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center. We discussed the fiscal challenges awaiting the winner of the 2024 presidential election and the more immediate challenge of finally…

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This week on Facing the Future, we talked with Molly Reynolds, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. With a partial shutdown looming on Friday, January 19, we discussed why Congress never passes its annual appropriations bills on…

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This week on Facing the Future, I spoke with Mike Murphy, Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB). We discussed the many daunting fiscal challenges awaiting the winner of the 2024…

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This week on Facing the Future, we looked back on budget and economic policy in 2023, which was mostly about avoiding crises, and where things stand heading into 2024. Our discussion featured a panel of Concord Coalition experts, including policy…

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