The 2018 Money, Metals & Mining Cruise

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.

Ken Fisher is the founder, executive chairman, and co-chief investment officer of Fisher Investments, a $200+ billion global money management firm serving large institutions and high-net-worth individuals throughout most of the developed world. Mr. Fisher wrote the Forbes Portfolio Strategy column for 32+ years in 2017, making him the longest continuously running columnist in Forbes history. He now writes weekly columns for USA Today and Germany's Focus Money, and monthly columns in the United Kingdom's Financial Times, Denmark's B, the Netherland's Telegraaf and Spain's El Economista. Mr. Fisher authored 11 books, including four New York Times bestsellers-and has been published, interviewed and written about in publications globally.

David Asman is host of Bulls & Bears seen every weekday at 5 PM eastern on the Fox Business Network. Prior to joining the network, he served as The Wall Street Journal's Oped editor. Mr. Asman first joined the newspaper as editor of the "Manager's Journal" and the "Americas" columns, in addition to writing editorials and over 100 articles from Latin America and elsewhere. He was later named senior editor for the Journal's editorial page. A recipient of the 1986 Inter American Press Association's (IAPA) Tom Wallace Award for coverage of Latin America in the "Americas" column, Mr. Asman also was editor of the book The Wall Street Journal on Management: Adding Value Through Synergy. In addition, he received the IAPA's 1992 and 1995 Daily Gleaner Award for his articles on free trade and Cuba and Mexico's economies respectively.

Elizabeth MacDonald is the senior stocks editor of the FOX Business Network, and is a founding panelist of FOX News' weekly show Forbes on Fox. Prior to joining FOX, Ms. MacDonald was a senior editor covering corporate accounting scandals at Forbes magazine. While at Forbes, she created Forbes' World's Most Powerful Women annual ranking, widely covered around the world. Prior to joining Forbes, Ms. MacDonald covered Wall Street, corporate accounting scandals, the IRS and taxes at The Wall Street Journal, where she wrote "Heard on the Street" columns, front page stories, editorials, features, and economic outlook columns. Ms. MacDonald was also a financial editor at Worth magazine and a writer at Money magazine. Her scoops include corporate accounting abuses, corruption on Wall Street, the Kennedy Administration's use of the IRS to attack its political enemies, how President George H.W. Bush avoided state income taxes, and the Church of Scientology's secret settlement with the IRS to become a nonprofit religion, based on internal IRS documents. She has won 12 awards, including the Gerald Loeb Award for Excellence in Business Journalism, the Society of Professional Journalists' Award for Outstanding Public Service Reporting, and received another Loeb nomination.