[2][3][4] He soon forged a friendship with Steve Forbes, then a fellow rookie reporter, that lasted the rest of his life.
[2] In 1977, Minard and David Warsh shared the 1977 Gerald Loeb Award for Magazines for their article "Inflation Is Too Serious a Matter To Leave to the Economists,"[1][5] in which they argue that inflation is made worse by higher taxes forcing merchants to raise their prices, and that economists fail to take historical factors into account.
[10][11] Forbes Global launched in April 1998 with Minard editing from New York City as well as writing the "Sidelines" column.
[3][4][11] Minard described the magazine's target reader as "[a] Swedish woman working for a French company based in Singapore and selling to the Chinese.
[2] The Minard Editor Award was created in Minard's honor after his death by the UCLA Anderson School of Management as part of the Gerald Loeb Awards to recognize business editors whose work does not receive a byline or whose face does not appear on air for the work covered.
[1] The trophy was presented to his wife Elizabeth by his longtime friend Steve Forbes at the awards ceremony.