Steve Forbes
Steve Forbes
Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes, Jr.is an American publishing executive, who was twice a candidate for the nomination of the Republican Party for President. Forbes is the Editor-in-Chief of Forbes, a business magazine. Forbes was a Republican candidate in the 1996 and 2000 Presidential primaries. Forbes is the son of longtime Forbes publisher Malcolm Forbes, and the grandson of that publication's founder, B.C. Forbes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth18 July 1947
CountryUnited States of America
Cutting rates works. It means more businesses and more jobs are created and the economy moves ahead.
Why is this list growing? The global economy has been growing the last two years at rates not seen since World War II, fuelled by a commodities boom with a whiff of inflation.
Why is the list growing? The answer is an obvious one - the global economy is growing.
I think that's why the Federal Reserve has to say explicitly it will provide sufficient liquidity to get this economy moving again, ... The Fed has been behind the curve.
If you were doing comic strips you would have the dark cloud above his head, constantly raining. If the morning has a little bit of fog, he'll say fog is descending on America. If the sun is out, he'll say that we're going to get overly sunburned. If it rains, he'll say there are floods coming; if it doesn't rain, he'll predict drought. And the fact of the matter is, in terms of the American economy right now, it's in a very strong position.
There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.
Is he afraid that the American people will find out what he really stands for, or that he has no vision at all?
Especially after what we've had in Washington for seven years, I think people want to get to know their candidates, ... They don't want surprises after the election.
So on the budget, we should get real. We should not act like cowardly lions. We should get our courage back again.
Consider this, for starters. Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which has defined the character of the nation, is all of 268 words. The Declaration of Independence runs about 1,300 words. The Constitution, which has served us for more than two centuries, comes to some 5,000 words. The Holy Bible has 773,000 words. The federal income tax code and all of its attendant rules and regulations: 9 million words and rising.
Don't phase in the cuts over five years, ... Help people now.
You go wherever there are groups of activists willing to work. I have visited this state several times this year.
You get huge changes in the last seven to 10 days as people really focus. I come from the business sector, where competition is a daily fact of life.
I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think at the end of the day, people are going to say, 'what was Obama's record?' Governor Romney's got pro-growth Reaganesque proposals on the table.