Steve Forbes: What's Ahead

After two years of lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccines and physical distancing, Americans are more than ready to resume normal lives. But is the pandemic phase of Covid over? Steve Forbes on why Washington should remove the Covid cloud, end restrictions and declare the pandemic over. Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

The House of Representatives just passed a bill with a $350 billion price tag that will supposedly make the U.S. more competitive with China, but Congress just doesn't get it when it comes to competing with China. Steve Forbes on the details of this $350 billion bill and on why it’s the wrong approach to boosting U.S. competitiveness with China. Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Germany was once a stalwart U.S. ally and a global economic powerhouse. Not anymore. And that’s bad news for the free world and a prosperous Europe. Steve Forbes on Germany’s pro-Putin policies, how they have been loosening their ties with the U.S., and whether or not the U.S. can count on Germany in Russia. Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

America’s military is still the best globally, especially our combat forces, but dangerous problems are looming. For America’s sake and that of the Free World, reforming the U.S. Department Of Defense is a must. Steve Forbes on the glaring challenges, bureaucratic hurdles and decline in capabilities that are leaving the U.S. vulnerable to growing international threats. Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

While the world is focused on Ukraine and Taiwan, China is cleaning up another front. Beijing is eating the U.S.' lunch when it comes to trade. Steve Forbes on China's increasing trade dominance and the key to Beijing's expansion, and on how the U.S. is floundering as our government shows little interest in pursuing such vital, significant trade matters. Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Politicians have long been masterful in disguising or obscuring the true nature of their proposals. But ​​will misleading labels and bureaucratic maneuvers save President Biden's antigrowth economic agenda? Steve Forbes on the truth behind the euphemisms and outright false labeling that have pushed political agendas in the past, and on why you should never judge a political proposal by its label. Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Despite Biden's continued push for significant tax increases, a tax-cut revolution is coming. But will Republicans be smart enough to ride the wave? Steve Forbes on the impressive number of states moving in the opposite direction of tax-loving Democrats, on who could be the next zero-income-tax state and on which states just aren't getting the message. Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

President Biden said at his disastrous press conference: “Putin will strike Ukraine. The only question is the scale of his operations.” Steve Forbes on Russia's possible military actions and on whether the U.S. should send troops into Ukraine to prevent a strike by Putin. Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

For the first time since the Cold War, we are faced with powerful adversaries determined to fundamentally alter the global status quo and who have the means to seriously challenge the U.S. Can the Biden Administration develop a defense and foreign policy strategy that meets our real needs before it’s too late? Steve Forbes on the crises brewing internationally and on why Biden’s foreign policy response must change. Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

By all traditional measures, stocks have been overvalued for a long time. With stocks off to a terrible start in 2022 is the stock market still overvalued, or is the current weakness just a road bump on the way to new highs? Steve Forbes on what the bullish case boils down to, how the conditions have changed, and why investors should beware. Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

President Biden and his team are faulting greedy businesses—primarily meat processors—oil and gas producers and pharmaceutical companies to avoid blame for rising prices. And, if inflation doesn't ease soon, there is talk that Biden will enforce price controls on these businesses. Steve Forbes on the swirling inflation scapegoats, on how history has demonstrated prices controls don't work and on why artificially suppressing prices would be a disastrous move! Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Turkey’s currency, the lira, is plunging in value, and the official inflation rate is soaring, causing desperate people there to plunge into cryptocurrencies. When people don’t trust their domestic currencies, they will find more trustworthy alternatives. Steve Forbes on the favorite cryptocurrency in Turkey right now, on what that reveals about the future of cryptos and on how this is just the beginning of this specific class of crypto’s challenge to governments’ monopoly of money. Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

After downplaying the threat of rising prices, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is now portraying himself as a fierce, sure-handed inflation fighter. But the core question is straightforward: Does Powell know how to do the job without throwing a wrench into the economy and sending it into a recession? Steve Forbes on Powell’s plans to curb inflation and on what he might be missing when it comes to the true nature of inflation. Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

The promise of 5G, the fifth generation in cellular mobile communications, is ready to be realized. But, incredibly, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has recently been throwing up baseless obstacles that could delay the 5G revolution. Steve Forbes on the FAA’s baseless safety concerns and on why, for all our sakes, they must be firmly resisted. Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

There are two kinds of inflation simultaneously wreaking havoc on our economy, and 2022 could be the year when inflation starts to hit the stock market adversely. But how bad will it be? Will inflation finally cause a stock market crash in 2022? Steve Forbes on what investors need to consider when it comes to the two kinds of inflation and on the darkening cloud hanging over the New Year, which is undermining the dollar's value. Steve Forbes shares his What’s Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.