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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.

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.

Mark Mills co-founded Montrose Lane, an energy-software venture fund, is founder and Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics, a contributing editor at Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's engineering school. He writes for numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, and his PragerU videos have been viewed over 10 million times. Mr. Mills is the author several books: The Cloud Revolution (2021), Digital Cathedrals (2020), Work In The Age Of Robots (2018), and The Bottomless Well, (2005), about which Bill Gates said, "This is the only book I've ever seen that really explains energy." He served as Chairman/CTO of ICx Technologies helping take it public in a 2007 IPO. Mr. Mills served in President Reagan's White House Science Office, and earlier, was an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fiber optics at Bell Northern Research (Canada's Bell Labs) and RCA Semiconductor. 

Kenny Polcari is chief market strategist at SlateStone Wealth. He is a well-known TV personality appearing on Fox Business and CNBC and is often quoted in major print media outlets. Mr. Polcari writes a daily morning thoughts missive that is an informative, engaging, and entertaining look at global markets. He also converts the daily written piece into a daily video piece as an alternative option for subscribers. Prior to that, Mr. Polcari was a managing director at O'Neil Securities/Member NYSE. He built the US equities business at ICAP and ran the NYSE trading floor division on behalf of Salomon Brothers. Mr. Polcari is also an Advisory Board member of The Headstrong Project.