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Facing The Future

First Quarter GDP: Down But Not Out

May 4, 2022
Special Guest: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Tori Gorman, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future, we looked at the state of the economy, including the first quarter GDP report, inflation expectations, the prospects for a "soft landing" as the Fed begins to tighten monetary policy, and whether there are…
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How the Younger Generation Views Fiscal Responsibility

Apr 27, 2022
Special Guest: Diane Lim
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This week on Facing the Future, we go back in for a deeper dive with the voices of our future leaders and how they would address the growing challenge of putting the federal budget on a more sustainable path…
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Sizing up the Biden FY 2023 Budget

Mar 31, 2022
Special Guest: Tori Gorman, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Policy Director Tori Gorman, Chief Economist Steve Robinson, and I took a look at President Biden’s newly released Fiscal Year 2023 $5.8 Trillion federal budget proposal, measuring the new spending and revenue…
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Facing the Future in America’s Heartland

Mar 23, 2022
Special Guest: Phil Smith, Dr. Josh Gordon, Ben Ritz
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This week, Facing the Future took to the road to Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana where The Concord Coalition’s national field director Phil Smith helped run our Principles and Priorities federal budget exercise with students and local community members,…
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National Debt Outlook After Two Years of COVID

Mar 17, 2022
Special Guest: Brian Riedl, Wendy Edelberg
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This week on Facing the Future, we have a special edition of the program featuring excerpts from a recent panel discussion at the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership, and Public Service at the University of New Hampshire’s Franklin…
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Inflating the Budget, and Three Healthcare Myths

Mar 3, 2022
Special Guest: Richard Jackson, Tori Gorman, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future, we focus on healthcare costs and inflation, two factors that have an enormous impact on the federal budget and our national debt.  In the first part of the program, we spoke to friend of…
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Leadership in Time of Crisis

Feb 23, 2022
Special Guest: Professor David Gergen
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This week on Facing the Future, we got a rare opportunity to speak about leadership in a time of crisis with a real scholar of presidential politics: Professor David Gergen of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Gergen served as a…
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Acting Short and Thinking Long

Feb 17, 2022
Special Guest: David Lerman
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This week on Facing the Future, we take a deep dive into the broken federal budget appropriations process in Congress with journalist David Lerman, editor of Congressional Quarterly Budget (CQ Budget). Lerman previously covered national security, defense spending, and foreign…
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A ‘New Normal’ for COVID-19?

Jan 26, 2022
Special Guest: Dr. Michael Osterholm
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This week on Facing the Future, we spoke with Dr. Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, one of the world’s leading experts on infectious disease and epidemiology. Osterholm is the Director of the University’s Center for…
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Inflation: Here Today, Here Tomorrow?

Jan 20, 2022
Special Guest: Jason Furman
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This week on Facing the Future, we discussed the inflation outlook with Jason Furman, former chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors from 2013-17, and now a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Concord Coalition Policy Director Tori…
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The 1992 Tsongas Campaign and the Birth of The Concord Coalition

Jan 6, 2022
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This week on Facing the Future, we kicked off the 30th anniversary of The Concord Coalition’s founding by talking with Kitty Kurth, a veteran of the 1992 Paul Tsongas presidential campaign who would later that year become the first ever…
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As 2021 Comes to a Close, Unfinished Business Dominates 2022 Congressional Agenda

Jan 4, 2022
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For our last Facing the Future program of 2021, I gathered an all-star panel of Concord Coalition staff including: Policy Director Tori Gorman, Chief Economist Steve Robinson, National Field Director Phil Smith, Deputy Director Chris Colligan, and our newest staff…
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