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 began with a review of Moore vs. United States, a case that could have a profoundly negative effect on federal government revenues. Our guest was Steven Rosenthal, Senior Fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax…
This week on Facing the Future we were privileged to have two former U.S. Senators, Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Rob Portman (R-OH). They have been lending their voices to the push for a new bipartisan fiscal commission that would propose…
This week on Facing the Future, we heard from three members of Congress who took part in a webinar titled, “Working Toward a Sustainable Fiscal Future in a Divided Congress.” The three congressmen, Don Bacon (R-NE), Jared Golden (D-ME) and…
This week on Facing the Future, we began with a status check on the stalled appropriations process on Capitol Hill now that a new Speaker of the House has been selected. Our guest for that segment was Tom Kahn, who…
This week on Facing the Future we talked with former Congressman and Ambassador to Denmark Richard Swett about the work he’s been doing with a Princeton University initiative on restoring the Constitutional powers of Congress. Swett serves on a subcommittee…
This week on Facing the Future, we looked ahead to a “day of reckoning” that our guest, Eugene Steurele of the Urban Institute, says is coming for U.S. fiscal policy. We also got Gene’s take on why the budget is,…