Steve Forbes: What's Ahead

Steve Forbes calls out the Federal Reserve for its refusal to reduce interest rates due to its animus against President Trump, who attacks Chair Jerome Powell routinely—and explains why DOGE-like massive reforms are required to put the central bank back on course. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes shares his unvarnished reaction to the Federal Reserve's continued refusal to cut interest rates due to its absurd belief in the patently false premise that to control inflation, it must deliberately try to stimulate or depress economic activity. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes explains that in this extremely precarious geopolitical situation, President Trump must stay firm by backing Israel against Iran and Ukraine against Russia. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes makes the case to abolish or at least substantially reform the Congressional Budget Office, calling out the agency's consistent patterns of error that have consistently misled policymakers and thrown a wet blanket on economy-boosting tax cuts. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes makes the case for privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a move that has just been proposed by President Trump. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes warns the U.S. Senate to remove the "Revenge Tax," an onerous markets-focused levy that would end up as Section 899 of the Federal Tax Code, from the Big Beautiful Bill currently being considered. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes explains that the trade war could get even worse if President Trump invokes a barely-known section of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which might obviate even the toughest court decisions blocking his hardline tariffs. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes explains why a new 3.5% levy on remittances in congressional Republicans' "Big Beautiful Bill" should be scrapped immediately—or we will see a sharp uptick in money laundering. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes explains how U.S. fecklessness could allow Vladimir Putin to pull off a victory in Ukraine—and warns that a successful act of aggression by Russia will only embolden China's expansionist aims. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes urges President Trump and his team to go back to following the Laffer Curve, economist Art Laffer's economic formula which fueled the American comeback of the 1980s and 1990s, in order to unleash today's economy and make a brighter future. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes explains how lawsuits against President Trump's tariffs will probably end up in the Supreme Court—and if modern history is instructive, the nation's highest court might end them sooner than anyone thinks. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes explains how the nearly catastrophic escalation in the conflict between India and Pakistan—thankfully averted due to a ceasefire engineered by the Trump Administration—demonstrates why the world is safer when the U.S. does not bend toward isolationism. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As President Trump visits the Middle East, Steve Forbes urges his administration not to cool relations with Israel, and to green light an assault on all of Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as possible in order to bring about a more stable world. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes offers some much-needed advice to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the Board of Governors to bring some stability to the U.S. economy, including issuing some bonds backed by gold and ditching a lavish revamp of its Washington headquarters. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes explains why President Trump's second 100 days will ultimately define his presidency, hinging on how painful the impact of tariffs will be felt, whether Republicans will pass their "one big beautiful bill," and how an increasingly volatile geopolitics will either get better or worse. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes explains why the Trump Administration's proposed peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine War would constitute a big win for Vladimir Putin and only make the world more dangerous. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes explains why the Trump Administration needs to remember that the mullahs cannot be trusted as it undertakes new U.S.-Iran nuclear talks—and why if the Iranians actually figure how to get out an upper hand, Israel will ultimately take action to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes discusses the massive expenses and inefficiencies within Medicaid that are costing the U.S. taxpayer enormously, and advises the GOP to take this generational opportunity to employ some much-needed, but politically difficult, fixes. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes explains why focusing on trade deficits and surpluses completely ignores the key questions of economic health—and why the focus on that could lead to serious and avoidable economic turbulence. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Forbes calls out the unfair trade practices that sees U.S. citizens subsidizing the pharmaceutical bills of other countries—and lays out the desperately needed reforms to make things right. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.