About Mark Skousen
Mark Skousen
Known as the “maverick” of economics for his contrarian and optimistic views, his sometimes-outrageous statements and predictions, Mark Skousen is a college professor, prolific author and world-renowned speaker. He’s made his unique sense of market and investment trends known and respected in the financial world. With a Ph.D. in economics and a focus on the principles of free-market capitalism and “Austrian” economics, Mark Skousen has often gone contrary to the crowd in his investment choices and economic predictions — and has often been proved right.
His more unusual predictions include:
- Forecasting in the early 1980s that “Reaganomics will work!”
- Sending a special alert to subscribers of Forecasts & Strategies to “Sell all stocks and mutual funds” on Sept. 8, 1987, just six weeks before the 1987 Stock Market Crash
- Calling for the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of Soviet Communism
- Predicting of the biggest bull market on Wall Street in the 20th century — the 1990s
Mark Skousen has built a reputation for not only accurately identifying the right economic and political trends, but also the right investments for the times.
An almost idealistic proponent of liberty and political freedom, Mark Skousen is actively involved in some of the most prestigious free-market and liberty think tanks in the world. He frequently speaks and writes articles for organizations such as the Cato Institute, the Foundation for Economic Education, the Libertarian Party, the Council for National Policy and the Mt. Pelerin Society. You can read many of those articles or listen to some of his speeches. He is also the producer of FreedomFest, an annual conference held in Las Vegas (the country’s most libertarian city!) and billed as the world’s largest gathering of free minds on liberty. You can visit www.freedomfest.com for more information.
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Other websites:
www.markskousen.com
www.freedomfest.com
www.freemarkethalloffame.com
Email at mskousen@mskousen.com.
Mail:
Mark Skousen
c/o Eagle Publishing Inc.
One Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
1-800-211-7661
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Hi, this webpage has a link to Amazon for the 3rd Edition of Economic Logic but Amazon only has the 2nd available and a search at Amazon for the 3rd yields no results. Please advise.
Thx for what you do.
I think I want to attend your conference but have a question. When you state “purely egalitarian” by that do you mean: You support socialism, communism, anarchism, left-libertarianism, and progressivism, all of which propound economic, political, and legal egalitarianism, respectively.
I did not realize Reagan, Hayek or Mises had this view. I also do not see how this is a “freedomfest” if your view of freedom is that I should sacrifice my life for another? Please direct me to a source that I might understand what I have misunderstood.
Kind Regards,
C
My husband and I attended this year’s Freedomfest and absolutely loved it! We plan to attend next year.
We were not able to purchase a DVD of Mr. Forbes speech of “How Capitalism Will Save Us”. Can you give us any information on how to obtain a copy?
Keep fighting for freedom!!!
Kind Regards,
Leslie Damiano