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Has capitalism failed?Is it fundamentally greedy and immoral, enabling the rich to get richer? Are free markets Darwinian places where the most ruthless crush smaller competitors, where vital products and services are priced beyond the ability of many people to afford them?Capitalism is the world's greatest economic success story. It is the most effective way to provide for the needs of people and foster the democratic and moral values of a free society. Yet the worst recession in decades has widely—and understandably—shaken people's faith in our system. Even before the current crisis, capitalism received a "bad rap" from a culture ambivalent about free markets and wealth creation. This crisis of confidence is preventing a full recognition of how we got into the mess we're in today—and why capitalism continues to be the best route to prosperity. How Capitalism Will Save Us transcends labels such as "conservative" and "liberal" by showing how the economy really works. When free people in free markets have energy to solve problems and meet the needs and wants of others, they turn scarcity into abundance and develop the innovations that are the foremost drivers of economic growth. The freedom of democratic capitalism is, for example, what enabled Henry Ford to take a plaything of the rich—the car—and transform it into something affordable to working people.In the capitalist system, economic growth doesn't mean more of the same—grinding out a few more widgets every year. It's about change to increase overall wealth and give more people the chance for a better life.From the Hardcover edition.

Inflation: What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It explains what's behind the worst inflationary storm in more than forty years--one that is dominating the headlines and shaking Americans by their pocketbooks.The cost-of-living explosion since the COVID pandemic has raised alarms about a possible return of a 1970's-style Great Inflation. Some observers even fear a descent into the kind of Weimar-style hyperinflation that has torn apart so many nations. Is this true? If so, what should be done? How should we prepare for the future?Inflation answers these and other questions in an engaging discussion that draws on the singular expertise of Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Media, acclaimed for his insights on money and the economy; Nathan Lewis, internationally renowned expert on money and taxation; and author and journalist Elizabeth Ames.The authors say that today's problems can be solved by discarding longstanding beliefs that helped bring on the current crisis. They include the notion that central banks can create prosperity through artificially creating money out of thin air, and also that economic stability requires a little inflation. Such ideas for decades have been Holy Writ in official Washington. Inflation shows why they are misguided. The book also explains why the current rage for heedless money-printing advocated by left-wing advocates of so-called Modern Monetary Theory is likely to lead the nation--and the world--down the road to disaster.Packed with examples from the headlines and from history, Inflation is a unique, real-world exploration of the subject that addresses everyday concerns of Americans under siege by rising prices, including steps you should take to protect your wealth.Inflation is essential listening for everyone seeking to navigate these tumultuous times.

Based on an extraordinary collaboration between Steve Forbes, chairman, CEO, and editor in chief of Forbes Media, and classics professor John Prevas, Power Ambition Glory provides intriguing comparisons between six great leaders of the ancient world and contemporary business leaders.• Great leaders not only have vision but know how to build structures to effect it. Cyrus the Great did so in creating an empire based on tolerance and inclusion, an approach highly unusual for his or any age. Jack Welch and John Chambers built their business empires using a similar approach, and like Cyrus, they remain the exceptions rather than the rule.• Great leaders know how to build consensus and motivate by doing what is right rather than what is in their self-interest. Xenophon put personal gain aside to lead his fellow Greeks out of a perilous situation in Persia–something very similar to what Lou Gerstner and Anne Mulcahy did in rescuing IBM and Xerox.• Character matters in leadership. Alexander the Great had exceptional leadership skills that enabled him to conquer the eastern half of the ancient world, but he was ultimately destroyed by his inability to manage his phenomenal success. The corporate world is full of similar examples, such as the now incarcerated Dennis Kozlowski, who, flush with success at the head of his empire, was driven down the highway of self-destruction by an out-of-control ego.• A great leader is one who challenges the conventional wisdom of the day and is able to think out of the box to pull off amazing feats. Hannibal did something no one in the ancient world thought possible; he crossed the Alps in winter to challenge Rome for control of the ancient world. That same innovative way of thinking enabled Serge Brin and Larry Page of Google to challenge and best two formidable competitors, Microsoft and Yahoo!• A leader must have ambition to succeed, and Julius Caesar had plenty of it. He set Rome on the path to empire, but his success made him believe he was a living god and blinded him to the dangers that eventually did him in. The parallels with corporate leaders and Wall Street master-of-the-universe types are numerous, but none more salient than Hank Greenberg, who built the AIG insurance empire only to be struck down at the height of his success by the corporate daggers of his directors.• And finally, leadership is about keeping a sane and modest perspective in the face of success and remaining focused on the fundamentals–the nuts and bolts of making an organization work day in and day out. Augustus saved Rome from dissolution after the assassination of Julius Caesar and ruled it for more than forty years, bringing the empire to the height of its power. What made him successful were personal humility, attention to the mundane details of building and maintaining an infrastructure, and the understanding of limits. Augustus set Rome on a course of prosperity and stability that lasted for centuries, just as Alfred Sloan, using many of the same approaches, built GM into the leviathan that until recently dominated the automotive business.

Few topics are as misunderstood today as the subject of money. Since the U.S. abandoned a gold-linked dollar more than four decades ago, the world's governments have slid into a dangerous ignorance of the fundamental monetary principles that guided the world's most successful economies for centuries. Today's wrong-headed monetary policies are now setting the stage for a new global economic and social catastrophe that could rival the recent financial crisis and even the horrors of the 1930s. Coauthored by Steve Forbes, one of the world’s leading experts on finance, Money shows you why that doesn’t need to happen--and how to prevent it. After reading this entertaining and hugely well-informed book, you will know more about money than most people in the highest government positions today. Money explains why a return to sound money is absolutely essential if the U.S. and other nations are ever to overcome today's problems. Stable money, Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames argue, is the only way to a true recovery and a stable and prosperous economy. Today's system of fluctuating "fiat" money, in which governments manipulate the value of the dollar and other currencies, has been responsible for the biggest economic failures of recent decades, including the 2008 financial crisis, from whose effects we continue to suffer. The Obama/Bernanke/Yellen Federal Reserve and its unstable dollar policies are accelerating our course toward disaster, the authors show, in numerous convincing examples. In Money , Forbes and Ames answer these crucial questions: What is the difference between money and value?What is real wealth?How does sound money contribute to a well-functioning society?How have our money policy errors led to the current problems in global financial markets?What can we do now to reestablish the strength of the dollar and other currencies? The authors argue that the most effective way to return to a sound money policy and a healthy economy is to put the dollar back on a gold standard, and they outline the several different forms a gold standard could take. They also share invaluable suggestions for how to preserve our wealth and where to invest our money. Money is essential reading for anyone interested in this crucially important subject.

From Steve Forbes, the iconic editor in chief of Forbes Media, and Elizabeth Ames coauthors of How Capitalism Will Save Us —comes a new way of thinking about the role of government and the morality of free markets.Americans today are at a turning point. Are we a coun­try founded on the values of freedom and limited gov­ernment, as envisioned by the founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? Or do we want to become a European-style socialist democ­racy? What best serves the public good—freedom or Big Government? In Freedom Manifesto , Forbes and Ames offer a new twist on this historic debate. Today’s bloated and bureau­cratic government, they argue, is anything but a force for compassion. Instead of assuring fairness, it promotes favoritism. Instead of furthering opportunity, it stifles economic growth. Instead of unleashing innovation and material abundance, its regulations and price controls create rigidity and scarcity. Not only are Big Govern­ment’s inefficient and ever-expanding bureaucracies ill-equipped to deliver on their promises—they are often guilty of the very greed, excess, and corruption routinely ascribed to the private sector . The only way to a truly fair and moral society, the authors say, is through economic freedom—free people and free markets. Throughout history, open markets have helped the poor and everyone else by unleashing unprecedented creativity, generating wealth, and raising living standards. Promoting trust, generosity, and de­mocracy, economic freedom has been a more powerful force for individual rights, self-determination—and hu­manity—than any government bureaucracy. Freedom Manifesto captures the spirit of a new movement that is questioning old ideas about the mo­rality of government and markets for the first time since the Great Depression. Going beyond the familiar explanations and sound bites, the authors provide a fully developed framework of “first principles” for a true understanding of the real moral and ethical distinctions between more and less government. This timely and provocative book shows why free markets and liberty are the only way to a better future and a fair and humane society.

File your taxes on a postcard?Impossible!Guess again, says Steve Forbes, in his important new book Flat Tax Revolution. In fact, countries around the world have freed their taxpayers to do just that—and we can too with a simple flat tax that will slash tax rates, spur economic growth, and put the IRS out of business.In Flat Tax Revolution you’ll · How a simple 17 percent flat tax will save you time, money, and worry· Why the Flat Tax will eliminate the IRS, its bureaucrats, its paperwork, its nightmares, and its hassles· Why the Flat Tax will create jobs, and bring back ones we’ve lost overseas· How other countries are already reaping the benefits of a flat tax system· How the flat tax will stop special interests getting tax breaks at your expense· How the flat tax will eliminate shady accounting in business (something that our current tax system encourages)· Why the Forbes Flat Tax is also a tax cut· What you can do to make the Flat Tax a realityAs Steve Forbes shows, the Flat Tax shouldn’t be a partisan issue—it should be a taxpayer issue. And you can make it happen.What are you waiting for? Buy this book and join the crusade!

Conservative icon Steve Forbes returns with his most powerful and provocative ideas yetThe United States has been through one of the most tumultuous decades in recent history. Polls show people on both sides of the ideological divide believe that the country has gone off track. If something isn't done quickly, Americans face a bleak future-continuing decline and disarray in a world that grows ever more dangerous.Steve Forbes, two-time candidate for the GOP presidential nomination and Forbes Media Chairman, explains how today's malaise has been caused by years of Obama's destructive policies, a broken tax system, and the Federal Reserve's Soviet-style controls over credit and money.The problems are challenging. But Forbes tells us that, with the right policies, the country can bounce back faster than people think. In this compelling and much-needed book, he sets forth a three-part plan to revive America.Patient-Driven The problem with healthcare, Forbes says, is that Big Government, health insurance companies, and employers are in control, not you, the patient. The key to getting high-quality, affordable healthcare is increasing competition and choice, and putting patients in charge.Enact a Flat Today's complex, corrupt tax code must be scrapped. The best answer is a simple Flat Tax. Forbes shows how this very bold reform would free America from the IRS and unleash an unprecedented wave of prosperity.A Sound Dollar as Good as With its ever-fluctuating "fiat" dollar, the Federal Reserve has blocked a real recovery and is the prime cause of today's stagnant, crisis-ridden economy. The answer? Take the dollar out of the hands of the Washington politicians by returning to a monetary system with the value of the dollar linked to gold.A clear and vital guide, Reviving America shows how the United States can recover the optimism and entrepreneurial dynamism that made it the greatest nation in history. These are 21st century solutions-not the failed ideas of the recent past. Forbes offers specific ideas and plans, not generalities and bromides, and is challenging policy makers to do the same.Steve Forbes is the coauthor of Money, the New York Times bestseller Power Ambition Glory, and the Wall Street Journal bestseller How Capitalism Will Save Us. Forbes is the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media, which published Forbes magazine, with a circulation of nearly 1 million readers. Combined with Forbes Asia and Forbes Europe, and the company's licensee editions, the magazine reaches close to 6 million global readers. Forbes.com reaches almost 70 million unique monthly visitors.Elizabeth Ameshas co-authored three previous books with Steve How The Destruction of the Dollar Threatens The Global Economy-And What We Can Do About It; Freedom Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn't; andthe Wall Street Journal bestseller, How Capitalism Will Save Why Free People and Free Markets Are The Best Answer In Today's Economy."

America today has the potential for the greatest economic boom and spiritual renewal in our history. Presidential candidate and publishing magnate Steve Forbes shows how we can once again brighten economic prospects for everyone, reform our corrupt political institutions, and restore the severely weakened moral foundations of our country.

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Conservative icon Steve Forbes returns with his most powerful and provocative ideas yet.The United States has been through one of the most tumultuous decades in recent history. Polls show people on both sides of the ideological divide believe that the country has gone off track. If something isn't done quickly, Americans face a bleak future - continuing decline and disarray in a world that grows ever more dangerous.Steve Forbes, two-time candidate for the GOP presidential nomination and Forbes Media chairman, explains how today's malaise has been caused by years of Obama's destructive policies, a broken tax system, and the Federal Reserve's Soviet-style controls over credit and money.The problems are challenging. But Forbes tells us that, with the right policies, the country can bounce back faster than people think. In this compelling and much-needed book, he sets forth a three-part plan to revive America.Patient-Driven The problem with healthcare, Forbes says, is that Big Government, health insurance companies, and employers are in control, not you, the patient. The key to getting high-quality, affordable healthcare is increasing competition and choice, and putting patients in charge.Enact a Flat Today's complex, corrupt tax code must be scrapped. The best answer is a simple Flat Tax. Forbes shows how this very bold reform would free America from the IRS and unleash an unprecedented wave of prosperity.A Sound Dollar as Good as With its ever-fluctuating “fiat” dollar, the Federal Reserve has blocked a real recovery and is the prime cause of today's stagnant, crisis-ridden economy. The answer? Take the dollar out of the hands of the Washington politicians by returning to a monetary system with the value of the dollar linked to gold.A clear and vital guide, Reviving America shows how the United States can recover the optimism and entrepreneurial dynamism that made it the greatest nation in history. These are 21st-century solutions - not the failed ideas of the recent past. Forbes offers specific ideas and plans, not generalities and bromides, and is challenging policy makers to do the same.Steve Forbes is chairman and editor in chief of Forbes Media.The company encompasses ForbesLife, Forbes Europe, Forbes Asia, and Forbes licensee editions published in over 37 countries. The company also publishes a number of investment newsletters.Forbes.com reaches nearly 70 million users each month.The company's flagship publication, Forbes, is the nation's leading business magazine, with a circulation of more than 900,000.A widely respected economic prognosticator, Mr. Forbes is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times. The prize was formerly given by US Steel Corporation to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts for the coming year proved most accurate.In both 1996 and 2000, Mr. Forbes campaigned vigorously for the Republican nomination for the presidency. Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits, and a strong national defense. Mr. Forbes continues to energetically promote this agenda.Mr. Forbes' book, How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy - and What We Can Do About It, coauthored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw-Hill Professional), was published in June 2014 and received the coveted Leonard E. Read Book Award.

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Từ sự cộng tác lạ thường giữa Steve Forbes, chủ tịch, giám đốc điều hành và tổng biên tập của Forbes Media với giáo sư lịch sử cổ đại John Prevas, cuốn sách Tướng quân và CEO đã ra đời và đưa ra những so sánh thú vị giữa sáu nhà lãnh đạo vĩ đại của thế giới cổ đại với các nhà lãnh đạo kinh doanh thời hiện đại.Các nhà lãnh đạo vĩ đại không chỉ có tầm nhìn mà còn biết cách làm thế nào để biến nó thành hiện thực. Cyrus Đại đế thực hiện điều đó thông qua việc tạo ra một đế chế dựa trên lòng khoan dung và sự hòa hợp, một cách tiếp cận rất lạ đối với thời kỳ của ông hay bất cứ thời kỳ nào khác. Jack Welch và John Chambers đã xây dựng vương quốc kinh doanh của mình bằng cách thức tương tự, và cũng như Cyrus, họ vẫn là hiện tượng chứ không phải quy luật.Các nhà lãnh đạo vĩ đại biết cách làm thế nào để xây dựng sự đồng thuận và động viên thuộc cấp hơn là chú trọng đến tính tư lợi. Xenophon đã gạt sang một bên những vấn đề cá nhân để lãnh đạo các đồng đội Hy Lạp của mình thoát ra khỏi một tình huống nguy hiểm ở Ba Tư – điều mà Lou Gerstner và Anne Mulcahy cũng đã làm để giải cứu IBM và Xerox.Vấn đề tính cách trong lãnh đạo. Những kỹ năng lãnh đạo xuất chúng đã giúp Alexander Đại đế chinh phục được nửa phía đông của thế giới cổ đại, nhưng cuối cùng ông lại bị tiêu diệt do không chế ngự được chính những thành công phi thường của mình. Thế giới kinh doanh ngày nay tràn ngập những hình ảnh tương tự, điển hình là một người đang thụ án tù, Dennis Kozlowski, ban đầu đã rất thành công với đế chế kinh doanh của mình, để rồi tự hủy hoại bản thân do không kiểm soát được cái tôi quá lớn.Một nhà lãnh đạo vĩ đại là người dám thách thức sự khôn ngoan thông thường và có khả năng suy nghĩ vượt ra khỏi các lối mòn để tạo nên những kỳ tích. Hannibal đã làm được điều mà không ai trong thế giới cổ đại có thể nghĩ tới: vượt dãy Alps giữa mùa đông giá lạnh để thách thức quyền kiểm soát thế giới của đế chế La Mã. Cũng với lối suy nghĩ đầy sáng tạo ấy, Serge Brin và Larry Page của Google đã dám đối đầu và đánh bại hai đối thủ cạnh tranh đáng gờm là Microsoft và Yahoo!Nhà lãnh đạo phải có tham vọng mới thành công được. Và Julius Caesar là người đầy tham vọng. Ông đã dẫn dắt La Mã trở thành một đế quốc, nhưng thành công lại khiến ông tin rằng mình là thánh sống và làm ông mờ mắt trước những hiểm nguy xung quanh. Có nhiều nhà lãnh đạo kinh doanh và các “chúa tể vũ trụ” ở Phố Wall có điểm tương đồng với Caesar, nhưng không ai nổi bật hơn Hank Greenberg, người đã xây dựng công ty bảo hiểm AIG thành một đế chế rồi sau đó bị hạ gục tại đỉnh cao thành công bởi chính các con dao găm kinh doanh của các giám đốc dưới quyền ông.Và cuối cùng, công tác lãnh đạo liên quan đến việc giữ được cái nhìn tỉnh táo và khiêm tốn khi đạt được thành công cũng như luôn tập trung vào những điều cơ bản - những vấn đề thiết yếu trong việc vận hành một tổ chức. Augustus đã cứu La Ma khỏi bị tan rã sau vụ ám sát Julius Caesar, cai trị đế quốc này trong suốt hơn bốn mươi năm và đưa La Mã lên đến đỉnh cao của quyền lực. Những điều tạo nên thành công của ông chính là sự khiêm tốn, là sự chú ý đến ngay cả những chi tiết tầm thường nhất của việc xây dựng và bảo trì cơ sở hạ tầng, và sự thấu hiểu những giới hạn. Augustus đã mang lại cho La Mã một giai đoạn phồn vinh và ổn định kéo dài nhiều thế kỷ, cũng như Alfred Sloan, với những cách thức tương tự, đã xây dựng GM thành một tập đoàn khổng lồ mà cho đến tận bây giờ vẫn đang chi phối ngành kinh doanh ô tô.

Hong Kong Reporter Doyle Mulligan stumbles onto the biggest and maybe last story of his life. He’s investigating the exodus of Chinese from Hong Kong in the months before the handover of the colony to Beijing. The man he’s following is a possible ticket-seller on the underground railroad spiriting Chinese out of the city. But when Mulligan follows him aboard a flight to Taiwan, the plane gets blown out of the sky and the ticket seller gets blown out of the plane. One by one Mulligan’s leads are eliminated. One by one the people who are smuggling out the Chinese are being murdered by an assassin of almost mythological repute, an unstoppable, unbelievably powerful killer known only as the Yega. The killer is after one man who’s already bought his ticket, an eyewitness to the massacre at Tiananmen Square, a witness whose testimony can delay the handover for years.

At first blush, Michael Martin is hardly cut from heroic cloth. He gets seasick on boats. He gets airsick when he flies. He can't even stand crossing bridges. He's afraid of guns and knives. Cats put him into a tailspin. But he speaks flawless Spanish and he knows northern Colombia like the back of his hand. That's enough for Gayle Saunders. She talks Martin into going with her to Colombia in order to find her missing boyfriend, a hotshot pilot named Johnny Dash who'd hoped to make some fast money in the drug smuggling trade. What Michael Martin doesn't know is that he's not just along for translation. Gayle is using Martin as a pawn to get her boyfriend out of police custody even if it means Martin winds up in jail in his place.

Peter Masterson is a polar advisor to a scientific station on Antarctica’s desolate Ross Ice Shelf, where engineers are experimenting with a top secret hot water boring process. Mensa Station sits in the shadow of the impassable Queen Maud Mountains not far from the mouth of the treacherous glacier known as Hell’s Flow. When a Soviet polar expedition makes an unexpected and unexplained visit on their way to a mysterious rendezvous, Masterson’s suspicions are aroused. A female Russian on the team wants to defect. One of their engineers is killed and a saboteur is at work in the station. Then, soon after the Soviets’ departure Mensa Station is gutted by fire and the survivors, including Masterson and Russian woman are forced onto the ice of the frigid Antarctic night in a desperate race to cross the Queen Mauds and reach the rendezvous point ahead of the Soviet expedition. And there is only one route that can get them there on up Hell’s Flow

In the upper reaches of the Amazon River system a mammoth dam called O Ecuador has been built to harness a wild tributary of the Rio Negro. That, at least, is its stated purpose. In the process it will flood a mountain valley where an elusive tribe of feared headhunters called the Kuru still live in utter isolation. Even FUNAI, the Brazilian Indian affairs bureau knows virtually nothing about them. Millions have been spent to construct the dam. Billions in gold are at stake. Jim Malloy is an American pilot on the run from U.S. federal agents working as a cargo hauler to a logging firm on the other side of the mountains from Cannibal Valley. His meeting and subsequent rescue of a Kuru boy sets up a chain of events which rapidly spins out of his control. Before he knows it, Malloy is being coerced into flying a team of U.N. inspectors to the dam site. He refuses, because he senses they’re unlikely to return. But when a beautiful FUNAI representative thinks Malloy is the man for the job and Malloy’s only friend, a hulking Polish giant named Wall who believes there’s a fortune to be had in the going, makes it unanimous, he agrees. They are all three of them right. Malloy is the man for the job. There’s a fortune waiting for those who can find it. And none of them are supposed to make it out of Cannibal Valley alive.