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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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This week on Facing the Future Bob and The Concord Coalition’s Chief Economist Steve Robinson plunged into the tax code and tax policy with Steven Rosenthal, a Senior Fellow at the Tax Policy Center. First, they reviewed the U.S. Supreme…

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This week on Facing the Future, Bob discussed interest rates, inflation, the Federal Reserve, and more with Gordon Gray, Executive Director of the recently founded Pinpoint Policy Institute. An experienced political and policy staffer, Gray walked through what the Fed…

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This week on Facing the Future, we heard from students who participated in a unique edition of The Concord Coalition’s Principles and Priorities budget exercise at New Hampshire Boys State. Bob was joined by Phil Smith, Concord Coalition National Field…

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Jun 27, 2024
Special Guest: Bob Kerrey, Jack Danforth
This week on Facing the Future, Bob was joined by Concord Coalition Co-Chairs and former U.S. Senators Bob Kerrey (D-NE) and Jack Danforth (R-MO). Thirty years ago they co-chaired a bipartisan commission on entitlement and tax reform that warned of…

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This week on Facing the Future, Bob Bixby was joined by Concord Coalition Policy Director Tori Gorman and Chief Economist Steve Robinson to discuss the latest 10-year Budget and Economic Outlook from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO report…

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This week on Facing the Future, Bob Bixby was joined on the show by Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. He also served as one of thirteen…

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This week on Facing the Future Bob Bixby hosted a  discussion of China, Ukraine, Gaza, and more international strategy in the context of the budget. Joining to provide an expert perspective on U.S. military spending priorities was Michal O’Hanlon, Senior…

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This week on Facing the Future Bob was joined by George Mason University Professor Sita Slavov to discuss her recent essay Making Tough Fiscal Choices to Protect Future Generations and the relevance of long term sustainability to younger generations. Slavov…

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This week on Facing the Future, Jason Furman, former chair of the President’s Economic Council of Advisors from 2013-2017 and current professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, joined Bob for a full breakdown of the inflationary outlook, the debt,…

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May 16, 2024
Special Guest: Daniel Innis, Carolyn Arcand, Rebecca Shea
This week on Facing the Future, Bob examined how we can better engage young people in the federal budget process. Joining him were two University of New Hampshire professors, Daniel Innis - also a New Hampshire state senator - and…

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This week on Facing the Future we took a close look at Social Security and Medicare, the two largest programs in the federal budget. Between them they cost nearly $2.2 trillion dollars in 2023, roughly 36 percent of total federal…

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This week on Facing the Future our guest was former Congressman Reid Ribble, a Republican who represented the 8th district of Wisconsin from 2011-2017. In 2016, Ribble released the Save Our Social Security Act (S.O.S.) with a bipartisan group of…

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