Common Sense Radio: The State of the American Economy and Prospects for Growth with Phil Kerpen
Monday, October 12, 2026, on Common Sense Radio with Bill Sayre, weekdays, 11 o’clock till Noon.
Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment, joins Bill to discuss the state of the American economy, and prospects for economic growth. What the factors — short term and long term — that will affect the current and future course of the economy.
Potential Questions and Issues
What are the best ways to measure the health and resiliency of the American economy? Economic growth — sales of products and services, and income from those sales; inflation; real income; interest rates; employment; deficits and debt.
How do higher interest rates affect economic growth? Housing, business investment in machinery, equipment, and structures.
What policies affect the economy, growth, and opportunity? Tax reductions? What taxes were reduced in the One Big Beautiful Bill? Overtime, Tips.
What should we know about energy policy, and how it affect economic growth?
What is the role of unfunded liabilities in affecting the size and cost of the Federal Government. Social Security; Medicare; Medicaid. As much as $100 Trillion. How can these unfunded liabilities be seen as a form of off-budget liabilities?
What is the effect of Artificial Intelligence on the economy — present and future? Enormous capital investment. Improved productivity. Disruptive technology. Creative Destructive. Job loss and job creation.
Similarities and differences with earlier revolutions — revolution in agricultural machinery; and other aspects of the Industrial Revolution; the first phase of the information revolution, in the use of computers for repetitive or formulaic calculation, and word processing.
What role does our culture and Constitution play in long term economic growth. Both economic and political freedom. Choice and competition. Choice for customers and competition among suppliers and producers. How does competition regulation cost and quality?
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