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HARDtalk: Steve Forbes, President and CEO of Forbes

08/09/2009

Steve Forbes, President and CEO of Forbes

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Stephen Sackur talks to Steve Forbes, President and CEO of media group Forbes.

Stephen Sackur talks to Steve Forbes, President and CEO of media group Forbes, and asks if more regulation of the free market is inevitable?

Hardtalk is in New York City to meet a champion of the free market, Steve Forbes. 

As the President and CEO of the huge media group Forbes, he wrote a piece in his magazine last October titled How  Capitalism Will Save Us. 

He puts most of the blame for last year's financial crisis at the door of governments. But does he now accept that governments played a key role in saving the financial system from complete collapse and that more regulation of the free market is now inevitable? Steve Forbes talks to Stephen Sackur.

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