Wealth & Money Quote by Steve Forbes

"There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going" is the kind of upbeat boardroom metaphor that tries to turn macroeconomic anxiety into something you can picture in a glass. Forbes, a businessman and longtime avatar of pro-growth optimism, isn’t offering a forecast so much as a reassurance: whatever headwinds people are pointing to, the underlying system still has fuel. The genius of "juice" is how it smuggles confidence in under the guise of common sense. Juice is natural, replenishable, and meant to energize you. It frames the economy as a body that just needs to stay hydrated, not a machine with breakable parts or a society with competing priorities.

The subtext is a soft rebuke to pessimists and regulators: stop fretting, stop tightening, stop overthinking. It also implies that "the economy" is a single, coherent organism that benefits uniformly from continued momentum. That’s a comforting fiction, especially in moments when growth is real but unevenly distributed. Saying there’s juice doesn’t ask who’s drinking it, who’s paying for it, or what gets squeezed to produce it.

Contextually, the line fits a familiar Forbes-world posture: markets as self-correcting, expansion as the default moral good, caution as a kind of elite neurosis. It’s a sentence designed for TV hits and investor audiences because it’s vivid, non-technical, and impossible to falsify on the spot. If things go well, he called it. If they don’t, the problem becomes some external interruption of the juice flow.