Forbes Magazine

Pros: Future trends, financial advice, stock news

Cons: They miss sometimes!

Review: For well over 20 years I have used FORBES as a guide to creating wealth and opportunity in investing and business. The format of case studies studying patterns of success has helped me learn to become a more savvy investor. The annual reports rating...

Pros: Fresh perspectives (at least to me !); SPECIAL issues !

Cons: Did not like their opinion of eBay !

Review: I "LIKE" Forbes.....and I am not/was not particularly a fan of the publisher running for President.....but his father certainly could be among some of "my" favorite people !

If you have not picked up a copy of Forbes recently, you are...

Pros: Great insight into business trends

Cons: Subscribers are the last ones to hear about it.

The Bottom Line: Provides excellent source on trends on business.

Review: I've been a subscriber to Forbes magazine for over a year now and I can honestly say it's worth the investment. Even with its quality content, it is lacking in a couple of areas.

Great Business Content
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Pros: Generally clear, concise writing

Cons: A lot of advertising

Review: This magazine is a compendium of financial facts and insights which should be on every investors' desk. It contains useful advice on companies both new and old, trends in the marketplace, and my personal favourite issue, the "Forbes 500",...

Pros: Provides an insight into the sick, twisted faith of Evangelical Republicans.

Cons: News articles that prove false *disappear*.

The Bottom Line: I recommend this magazine to GOPers who need excuses to continue their irrational support of the Republican party.

Review: After many years of seeing conservatives read this magazine, I decided to give it a serious shot. I've flipped through it before, but never really gave it a good going-over.

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Pros: Just about everything you wanted to know about the business world

Cons: Too much advertisement

The Bottom Line: Ever wondered who is the world's wealthiest person? Find it in Forbes!

Review: Every time I get my issue of Forbes Magazine I skip most of the articles and go straight to the lists or rankings. America's Top 500 Companies, America's Wealthiest Entertainers, The World's Wealthiest People, The International 500, etc. Hey call me...

Pros: Not particularly left or right (within a capitalist business outlook).

Cons: Lack of research. Sensationalism.

Review: I got a free subscription to this magazine using frequent flyer miles, and I do not intend to renew. While the story topics are good, the writing is very poor. Overstatement and under-researched articles predominate.

Pros: Great writing, very insightful

Cons: Conservative

Review: The impression I had of Forbes for many years is of a stuffy, conservative magazine for old money types. But over the years (reading the magazine on long airline trips) I was again and again impressed by how such short articles (most of the...

Pros: Interesting, contrarian, fun to read.

Cons: Quality of coverage and articles is uneven. I much prefer Businessweek and The Economist.

Review: Forbes is a very iconoclastic business magazine. It often comes up with interesting and contrarian point of views on public policy, politics, investment theory. But, it's coverage of subjects and quality of articles is uneven. Also, the Forbes...

Pros: Timely articles; friendly toward mavericks; quotations on the last page of each issue

Cons: Price

The Bottom Line: The "Capitalist Tool" goes beyond "the bottom line" by providing examples of people and companies that buck "the system."

Review: One of the first magazines to which I ever subscribed when I moved into my first apartment in July 1997 was Forbes. My subscription followed me to my second and third apartments, but I lost the subscription on moving to my current apartment...