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Facing The Future

Breaking Down the CBO 10-year Baseline

Jun 4, 2022
Special Guest: Tori Gorman, Steve Robison, Phil Smith, Av Harris
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This week on Facing the Future, we relied on a panel of Concord Coalition staff to help us break down the latest 10-year Budget and Economic Outlook released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. I gave my own interpretation of…
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COVID Lingers. Have We Learned Any Lessons?

May 26, 2022
Special Guest: Dr. Jodie Guest, Av Harris, Phil Smith, Tori Gorman
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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…
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Congress has a Tall Agenda and a Short Clock

May 12, 2022
Special Guest: Jon Lieber, Tori Gorman
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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…
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First Quarter GDP: Down But Not Out

May 4, 2022
Special Guest: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Tori Gorman, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future, we looked at the state of the economy, including the first quarter GDP report, inflation expectations, the prospects for a "soft landing" as the Fed begins to tighten monetary policy, and whether there are…
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How the Younger Generation Views Fiscal Responsibility

Apr 27, 2022
Special Guest: Diane Lim
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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…
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The Economic and Budgetary Challenges of Climate Change

Apr 20, 2022
Special Guest: Brian Keane
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This week on Facing the Future, we explored the connection between environmental and fiscal sustainability with Brian Keane,  president of SmartPower, a Washington, DC based non-profit renewable energy and energy efficiency outreach organization.  Keane also has years of experience working on…
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Sizing up the Biden FY 2023 Budget

Mar 31, 2022
Special Guest: Tori Gorman, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Policy Director Tori Gorman, Chief Economist Steve Robinson, and I took a look at President Biden’s newly released Fiscal Year 2023 $5.8 Trillion federal budget proposal, measuring the new spending and revenue…
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National Debt Outlook After Two Years of COVID

Mar 17, 2022
Special Guest: Brian Riedl, Wendy Edelberg
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This week on Facing the Future, we have a special edition of the program featuring excerpts from a recent panel discussion at the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership, and Public Service at the University of New Hampshire’s Franklin…
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Inflating the Budget, and Three Healthcare Myths

Mar 3, 2022
Special Guest: Richard Jackson, Tori Gorman, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future, we focus on healthcare costs and inflation, two factors that have an enormous impact on the federal budget and our national debt.  In the first part of the program, we spoke to friend of…
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Leadership in Time of Crisis

Feb 23, 2022
Special Guest: Professor David Gergen
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This week on Facing the Future, we got a rare opportunity to speak about leadership in a time of crisis with a real scholar of presidential politics: Professor David Gergen of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Gergen served as a…
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Acting Short and Thinking Long

Feb 17, 2022
Special Guest: David Lerman
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This week on Facing the Future, we take a deep dive into the broken federal budget appropriations process in Congress with journalist David Lerman, editor of Congressional Quarterly Budget (CQ Budget). Lerman previously covered national security, defense spending, and foreign…
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A Blue Dog Keeps Barking

Feb 9, 2022
Special Guest: Jim Cooper
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This week on Facing the Future, we listen to a veteran Blue Dog Democrat bark one more time. That would be Congressman Jim Cooper (D-TN) who has represented his Nashville area district for more than three decades. Concord Coalition national…
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