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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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Apr 15, 2019
Special Guest: Bill Gale, Diane Lim, Robert L. Bixby
The latest “Economist Mom” segment on Facing the Future, featured Bill Gale, Diane Lim and Robert L. Bixby. They discussed Gale’s new book, “Fiscal Therapy: Curing America’s Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future.” “The book focuses on two major…

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New Hampshire Institute of Politics Executive Director Neil Levesque joined the latest Facing the Future program to discuss the institute, the New Hampshire primary, presidential candidates and more. “We are operating here nonstop,” Levesque said. “We have more presidential campaign…

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Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby and Policy Director Joshua Gordon joined the latest Facing the Future to discuss the nation’s health care system and “Medicare for All” proposals. “There’s probably no bigger challenge for the federal budget than…

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“I think there are a million fiscal issues that we should be thinking about more because obviously it is our children who are going to bear the burden of our profligacy,” said Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law professor who had…

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During the latest “Economist Mom” segment on Facing the Future, Diane Lim said that President Trump’s proposed budget is not likely to spark needed fiscal reform efforts. “I think that those efforts have to start in a bipartisan way in…

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Mar 10, 2019
Special Guest: Wayne Lesperance, Stephan Unger
Wayne Lesperance, vice president of academic affairs and professor at New England College, and Stephan Unger, a professor of economics and business at Saint Anselm College, joined the latest Facing the Future program to discuss political and civic engagement of college…

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During the latest “Economist Mom” segment on Facing the Future, Diane Lim, a principal at the District Economics Group, said that the statutory debt limit has become a problem because it is used as a political weapon instead of a…

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Feb 25, 2019
Special Guest: Paul Steinhauser, Tyler Sweeney
During the latest Facing the Future program, political correspondent Paul Steinhauser and Concord Coalition New Hampshire State Director Tyler Sweeney discussed candidates running for president in 2020 and activities taking place in advance of the New Hampshire primary. The candidates…

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Feb 13, 2019
Special Guest: Robert L. Bixby, Diane Lim
Economist Diane Lim hopes that Washington policymakers “will somehow become woke and enlightened and . . . say, ‘Hey you know what? We need to focus more on our economy and to do more of what would help our economy…

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On the latest Facing the Future program, Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby discussed President Trump’s State of the Union address and crucial items that were missing in it. “One thing the president didn’t do . . . was…

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Diane Lim discusses the end of the government’s longest shutdown and the new 10-year outlook from the Congressional Budget Office in the latest “Economist Mom” segment on Facing the Future. “I think what helped end the shutdown was how unpopular…

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On Facing the Future, economist Brian Gottlob joined the most recent program to discuss demographic trends, budget deficits during a period of economic growth, and feedback from the latest tax code overhaul. “We’ve had deficits, and we’ve had big deficits…

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