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 revisit our conversation with two authors, Alex Pollock and Howard Adler, from earlier this year. Pollock and Adler have written a new book called “Surprised Again: The COVID Crisis and the New Market Bubble”.…
This week on Facing the Future, we got an assessment of U.S. national security strategy and its potential impact on defense spending from Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow and director of research in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. O’Hanlon…
This week on Facing the Future, we spoke with Richard Jackson, founder and president of the Global Aging Institute, about the enormous impact that our aging population is having on the federal budget and our economy. A larger senior population…
This week on Facing the Future, we heard from the newest member of The Concord Coalition’s board of directors, Dr. Carolyn Bourdeaux. Dr. Bordeaux represented Georgia’s 7th district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2021-23. She is an adjunct…
This week on Facing the Future, we looked at (and tried to make sense of) the mixed bag of economic signals from the latest figures on employment, consumer prices, and the strategy employed by the Federal Reserve on interest rates,…
This week on Facing the Future, we got multiple perspectives on the debt limit deal reached just a few days ago by President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy that averts - once Congress passes it and the President signs it…