Economy

This week on Facing the Future we took a step back from the day-to-day budget battles in Washington to consider the overall fiscal outlook.

Earlier this week the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for next year (2022) would be 5.9 percent.  That’s slightly more than the

This week the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published its final monthly budget review for FY 2021.

Introduction

The annual Social Security and Medicare Trustees’ reports make numerous economic and demographic assumptions to project the long-term financial status of

This week on Facing the Future, Tori Gorman and I discussed balance sheets, risk, and the “arrhythmia of finance'' with Peter Fisher, Senior Fellow at the Center for Business, Government

Despite a pending government shutdown and looming debt default, this week federal lawmakers in Washington were hyper-focused on the House reconciliation legislation, the second installmen

This week on Facing the Future, we got a thorough briefing on the latest Social Security and Medicare Trustees’ Report from Dr.

This week on Facing the Future we went from Georgia to Colorado and back to Washington, D.C.

The United States Armed Forces uses an alert system called the “defense readiness condition” (DEFCON) to describe different levels of readiness, or states of alert, for military personnel