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.
Debt limit differences remain large as time runs low This week on Facing the Future, we kept our focus on the debt limit. With time quickly running out before the nation faces a default on its obligations, there was some…
This week on Facing the Future, we took a deep dive into defense spending, the largest portion of discretionary spending (i.e., annual appropriations)in the federal budget: President Biden proposes spending $842 billion for the Pentagon in his proposed fiscal year…
Facing the Future was in Washington DC this week for the national finals of the annual "Fiscal Challenge" competition among college students all over the country. The students put forward some thorough and well-researched plans to reduce the national debt as a share…
This week on Facing the Future, we hear from labor economist Betsey Stevenson, former member of the Obama administration’s Council of Economic Advisors, currently a professor of public policy and economics at the Gerald Ford R. Ford School of Public…
This week on Facing the Future, we focus on the economic and federal budget impact of climate change, with excerpts from a recent panel discussion on the topic that The Concord Coalition sponsored together with the League of Conservation Voters…
This week on Facing the Future we touched the “third rail” of American politics, Social Security, and lived to tell about it. Of course, none of us is running for public office. Our guest was Andrew Biggs, senior fellow at…