Steve Forbes

Chairman and Editor-in-Chief for Forbes Media

Steve Forbes is chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media. Forbes writes editorials for each issue under the heading “Fact and Comment. A widely respected economic prognosticator, he is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times. In both 1996 and 2000, Forbes campaigned vigorously for the Republican nomination for the presidency. Forbes is the author of “The Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn’t” (2012). Forbes serves on the boards of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He is on the Board of Overseers of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and on the Board of Visitors for the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He previously served on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University for ten years.

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America Doesn't Need A Strong Dollar Policy

With Steve Forbes, James Grant, Frederic Mishkin, John Taylor

March 13, 2013

It’s often taken for granted that America needs a strong dollar. When the value of the U.S. dollar is strong relative to other currencies, it becomes attractive to investors and allows Americans to buy foreign goods and services cheaply. But in times of recession, are we better off with a weak dollar that stimulates U.S. manufacturing by making our goods cheaper and more competitive? Or will the loss of purchasing power and currency manipulation abroad, offset the potential gains?

America Doesn't Need A Strong Dollar Policy

With Steve Forbes, James Grant, Frederic Mishkin, John Taylor

March 13, 2013

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