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 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…
This week on Facing the Future, we take a detour up to New Hampshire as we start 2023. We are about a year away from the next New Hampshire Presidential primary. But the Democratic National Committee (DNC) recently voted -…
This week on Facing the Future, we look at some of the thorny short and long-term tax questions facing Congress in the waning days of 2022. To help us sift through the morass of tax policy options and how they…
This week on Facing the Future, we hear excerpts from a special event held recently at the National Press Club to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Concord Coalition’s founding. We convened an all-star panel of leading experts each of…