How Capitalism Will Save Us

Speaker: 
Steve Forbes
 
12 Sep 2016
 
8:00 PM
 
Great Hall, Memorial Union

Steve Forbes is chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, whose flagship publication is the nation’s leading business magazine. Forbes, combined with Forbes Asia, Forbes Europe, and the company’s licensee editions, reaches a worldwide audience of more than 5 million readers, and Forbes.com has become a destination site for senior business decision-makers and investors. Steve Forbes is the author or coauthor of several books, including most recently Reviving America. A widely respected economic prognosticator, he is the only writer to have won the Crystal Owl Award four times, a prize given to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts proved most accurate. 
In 1996 and 2000, he campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination with a platform that included a flat tax, medical savings accounts, and a new Social Security system for working Americans.


Steve Forbes writes editorials for each issue of [i]Forbes[/i] under the heading of “Fact and Comment.” His other co-authored books include: [i]Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today . . . and the Lessons You Can Learn.[/i] Other Forbes Media websites include: RealClearPolitics.com; RealClearMarkets.com; RealClearSports.com and RealClearWorld.com.