Steve Forbes

Forbes is fascinating precisely because the name is the brand. Inheriting a media empire from his father and grandfather, he could have simply coasted as editor-in-chief of the magazine that ranks everyone else's wealth. Instead he ran for president twice on a flat-tax platform, which I find oddly admirable, a man born at the center of money and media choosing to risk the discomfort of the political arena. You can disagree with his economics, and many do, but there is a consistency to his convictions that I respect. He represents a particular American type: dynastic, ideological, and unembarrassed about both.

Name (English)

Steve Forbes

Name (Japanese)

スティーブ・フォーブス

Reading

すてぃーぶ・ふぉーぶす

Born

July 18, 1947 (age 79)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Boar

Origin

Morristown, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

politician / publisher / journalist / editor-in-chief / businessperson

University

Princeton University

Awards & achievements

• 2018 Order of Merit of the Star of Liberland
• 2017 New Jersey Hall of Fame

Motto

Private

• Xhttps://x.com/SteveForbesCEO
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%82%B9%20(%E5%87%BA%E7%89%88%E8%80%85)

Tags

• New Jersey
• politician
• publisher
• journalist

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.