The 43rd Forbes Cruise for Investors

Steve Forbes is chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media. His newest project is the podcast "What's Ahead," where he engages the world's top newsmakers, politicians, and pioneers in business and economics in honest conversations meant to challenge traditional conventions as well as featuring his signature views on the intersection of society, economy, and policy. Mr. Forbes helped create the highly acclaimed public television documentary, In Money We Trust?, which was produced under the auspices of Maryland Public television. The film was inspired by the book he co-authored, Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy - and What We Can Do About It. His latest book is Inflation: What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames and Nathan Lewis. Mr. Forbes writes editorials for each issue of Forbes under the heading of "Fact and Comment." A widely respected economic prognosticator, he 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.

Rich Karlgaard is editor-at-large and global futurist at Forbes, one of the most popular business and financial magazines, reaching 80 million people per month. He writes a column about technology, entrepreneurship, regional and economic development, and the future of business and work called Innovation Rules. He is the author of The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success, Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations, and Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement.

Mark Mahaney is a senior managing director and head of internet research at Evercore ISI. He has covered internet stocks for almost 25 years and has been consistently recognized by Institutional Investor for his research, spending 13 years as a top-three ranked analyst and five years as a number-one ranked analyst. He has worked on both the sell-side and the buy-side with companies, including American Technology Research, Morgan Stanley, Citibank, and Royal Bank of Canada.

Stephen Moore served as a senior economic advisor to Donald Trump and was a member of the President's Economic Recovery Task Force. He is the author of Trumponomics: Inside the America First Strategy to Revise Our Economy. Mr. Moore formerly wrote on the economy and public policy for The Wall Street Journal and served on the Journal editorial board from 2005-2014. From 2015-2017 he served as chief economist for the Heritage Foundation. He is the founder and former president of the Club for Growth, which raises money for political candidates that favor free-market economic policies. Mr. Moore has served as a senior economist on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and as a senior economic fellow at the Cato Institute, where he published dozens of studies on federal and state tax and budget policy. He is the author of five other books including The End of Prosperity. Mr. Moore received the Republican National Committee award of Great Communicator. He was named by Worth Magazine in 2019 as one of the top 50 influencers in global financial affairs.