Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, discusses his new book, “Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How To Fix It,” co-authored with Nathan Lewis and Elizabeth Ames. Forbes pans the Biden administration’s approach toward today’s inflation problem.
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