Town Hall Meeting with Steve Forbes
Join Steve Forbes, president, CEO, and editor-in-chief, Forbes, for a lively and insightful question-and-answer session in a town hall meeting format to discuss the current and future state of the US economy. He’ll share his take on the upcoming Presidential elections and his views the economy, the markets, specific sectors, and what’s ahead for 2008.

This session will include a continental breakfast and some mingling time with like-minded friends and photo opportunities with Mr. Forbes.

The Only Three Questions That Count
in 2008
Ken Fisher
Chairman and CEO
Fisher Investments
Best known for his prestigious portfolio strategy column in Forbes, where his 23-year tenure of high-profile calls now makes him the fourth longest-running columnist in Forbes' 90-year history. Mr. Fisher is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Fisher Investments, Inc., a $42+-billion-sized multi-product money management firm serving large corporate and public pension plans, as well as endowments, foundations, and high-net-worth individuals.

Profiting from the Turmoil in Housing and the Global Economy
Gary Shilling
President
A. Gary Shilling & Co., Inc.,
He has been a Forbes columnist since 1983 and writes the “Financial Strategy” column. At 29, Dr. Shilling served as Merrill Lynch’s first chief economist. He was twice ranked by Institutional Investor as Wall Street’s top economist and Futures Magazine rated him the country’s number one Commodity Trading Advisor. MoneySense Magazine has named him the third best stock market forecaster in the world, right behind Warren Buffett.

A New Era Dawns
Brian Wesbury
Chief Economist, First Trust Advisors LP
The Wall Street Journal ranked Brian Wesbury the nation’s #1 U.S. economic forecaster in 2001 and USA Today ranked him as one of the nation’s top ten forecasters in 2004. Mr. Wesbury writes a monthly column for The American Spectator magazine and serves as the magazine’s economics editor. He is a contributor to the editorial page at The Wall Street Journal, a regular guest on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Investing Like Warren Buffett—Or Not
Vahan Janjigian
Vice President and Executive Director
Forbes Investors Advisory Institute
The co-author and editor of the Forbes Stock Market Course and editor of the Forbes Growth Investor and Special Situation Survey newsletters, Vahan Janjigian is also host of MoneyMasters with Vahan Janjigian on the Forbes.com video network. According to an independent newsletter performance-rating agency, which began tracking his stock picks in January 2002, Dr. Janjigian has significantly outperformed all major benchmarks.

After November, What's Next?
The Hon. Pete du Pont , is chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a non-profit non-partisan research organization dedicated to providing private-sector solutions to public policy problems. A regular columnist for www.OpinionJournal.com, the editorial Web site of The Wall Street Journal, his columns, entitled “Outside the Box,” focus on current public policy and political matters. Gov. du Pont has served as state legislator, congressman, governor of Delaware, and was a Republican candidate for President of the United States in 1988.

Will Elderly Entitlements Bankrupt Us?
President, National Center for Policy Analysis
The National Journal, Wall Street Journal , and WebMD have called Dr. Goodman the “Father of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).” His pioneering approach to consumer-driven healthcare was advanced in his landmark book, Patient Power: Solving America’s Health Care Crisis. His latest book, Lives at Risk, analyzes healthcare institutions in countries around the world. He is the author of six other books, including Economics of Public Policy, a widely used college textbook.

A Fed Forecast: Is a Rate Hike on the Horizon?
Distinguished Fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis. Robert McTeer covers macro-economic issues, including monetary policy, fiscal policy, and tax and education policy at the National Center for Policy Analysis. Previously, he was Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, and before that, he served as president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He was as a member of the Federal Open Market Committee, serving with Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke.

Looking Under the Hood
Charles Payne
Founder and CEO
Wall Street Strategies Corporation
A regular on several popular programs on FOX News such as Bulls & Bears and Cavuto on Business, Charles Payne is CEO and chief analyst of Wall Street Strategies, an independent stock market research company. He will discuss using fundamental research as a primary tool and the charts as a guide for a one-two punch to investing success.

S&P's Top Ten Portfolio
Stephen Biggar
Vice President, US Equity Research
Standard & Poor's
As vice president of Equity Research, Stephen Biggar is head of S&P’s analytical team in the US. He is also a member of the Senior Portfolio Group and the Investment Policy Committee, which is responsible for providing a regular assessment of the state of the US equity markets and developing S&P's collective market forecast. He will detail the latest S&P research into the stocks that should outperform in the coming year.