Episodes
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
January Jobs Jolt
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
This week on Facing the Future, we’ll look at the latest economic numbers with a focus on jobs, wages and interest rates. The January jobs report showed a very robust, and surprising, gain of 353,000 jobs, up from 333,000 in December.
Gordon Gray, Vice President for Economic Policy at the American Action Forum will give us his take on what it means.
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Biden's Dubious Tax Pledge
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
This week on Facing the Future, we’ll take a close look at President Biden’s pledge not to raise taxes on households with annual income below $400,000.
Our guest is Ben Ritz, Director of the Center for Funding America’s Future at the Progressive Policy Institute. Ritz explains why that pledge is difficult to implement and how it undermines policymaking.
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
A Bipartisan Tax Bill Takes Shape
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
This week on Facing the Future, we’ll look at the congressional tax agenda, both in the next few weeks and into 2025 when a number of provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) are set to expire at the end of the year.
Our guide through the congressional tax thicket is Rohit Kumar, Co-Leader of Washington National Tax Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers and a former Deputy Chief of Staff to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Looming Fiscal Cliffs in 2025 and Beyond
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
This week on Facing the Future, our guest is Rachel Snyderman, Director of Economic Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center. We’ll ask her about the fiscal challenges awaiting the winner of the 2024 presidential election and the more immediate challenge of finally passing the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations bills – something that is now four months overdue.
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Consequences of a Broken Budget Process
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
This week on Facing the Future, we talked with Molly Reynolds, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, about the breakdown of the congressional budget process.
With another partial shutdown looming on January 19, we discussed why Congress never passes its annual appropriations bills on time, the problems this creates and whether there are any remedies.
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Fiscal Challenges for the Next Administration
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Fiscal Challenges for the Next Administration
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
The 2023 Fiscal Review: Running in Place
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
This week on Facing the Future, we looked back on budget and economic policy in 2023, which was mostly about avoiding crises, and where things stand heading into 2024.
Our discussion featured a panel of Concord Coalition experts, including policy director Tori Gorman, chief economist Steve Robinson, national field director Phil Smith, deputy director Chris Colligan, and media and policy intern Kyle Duffy.
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
The Fed Pivots With a Soft landing in Sight
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
This week on Facing the Future, we’ll focus on the latest economic projections from the Federal Reserve Board. Their last meeting, which concluded on December 13, certainly made some news with the projection that the Fed might actually begin to reduce interest rates in 2024. To guide us through the economic news, our guest this week is Robert Carroll, Co-leader of the EY’s Quantitative Economics and Statistics (QUEST) group. Concord Coalition policy director Tori Gorman and chief economist Steve Robinson join the conversation.
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
A Tax Case That Could Upend the Code
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
This week, on Facing the Future, we began with a review of the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in Moore vs. United States, a case that could have a big effect on federal government revenues. Our guest was Steven Rosenthal, Senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.
Then, Tori Goman, Steve Robinson and I looked at some new numbers on U.S. life expectancy and whether there may be a glimmer of hope that a government shutdown can be avoided in January.
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Storm Clouds on the Economic Horizon
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
This week on Facing the Future we got an update on the latest inflation and economic growth numbers from Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President of the American Action Forum and former Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Despite some encouraging short-term numbers, Holtz-Eakin sees a few warning signs for 2024.
We also discussed his new issue brief on employment-based immigration.