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Here’s a Tax-Deductible Way to Honor an American Hero

December 1, 2001

December 2001 PERSONAL SNAPSHOTS Forecasts & Strategies by Mark Skousen “A noble man cannot be lost in a crowd.” — Maori Saying I just returned from my 25th appearance at the New Orleans Investment Conference. I know hundreds of you have been to this classic “granddaddy “of seminars. There’s a reason why this investment conference [...]

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I Led Three Lives

November 1, 2001

November 2001 PERSONAL SNAPSHOTS Forecasts & Strategies by Mark Skousen “It was a time for every man to stir.” — Thomas Paine Westchester County, New York, where I now reside, is full of American heroes. Two are buried in Sleepy Hollow cemetery — Carnegie, the steel magnate (highlighted last month) and Samuel Gompers, the great [...]

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One Capitalist’s Advice: Attract Attention!

November 1, 2001

November 2001 From the President’s Desk Ideas on Liberty by Mark Skousen “Individualism, private property, the law of accumulation of wealth, and the law of competition . . . are the highest result of human experience, the soil in which society, so far, has produced the best fruit.” —ANDREW CARNEGIE’ A few days after my [...]

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This Icon of Capitalism Had the Answers

October 1, 2001

October 2001 PERSONAL SNAPSHOTS Forecasts & Strategies by Mark Skousen “The business career is a stern school of all the virtues. The business man pursues fortune.”— Andrew Carnegie After moving to New York last month to become the president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), I took the opportunity to pay my respects to [...]

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Where Are the Best Schools in Austrian Economics?

July 1, 2001

Ideas On Liberty Economics on Trial July 2001 by Mark Skousen “We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.” —F. A. Hayek Frequently students or parents approach me at investment or economics conferences with the question, “Can you recommend an undergraduate or graduate program in free-market economics?” With the explosive interest in [...]

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Pulling Down the Keynesian Cross

June 1, 2001

Ideas On Liberty Economics on Trial June 2001 by Mark Skousen “The circle had come right round; it was as though Keynes had never been.” -Robert Skidelsky1 “Textbooks have to be rewritten in the aftermath of each scientific revolution.” -Thomas S. Kuhn2 In his third and final volume on John Maynard Keynes, Robert Skidelsky comes [...]

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Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?

June 1, 2001

Forecasts & Strategies Personal Snapshots June 2001 By Mark Skousen Governments are generally reluctant to admit mistakes and to change mistaken policies until much harm has been done. -P.T. Bauer and B.S. Yamey In Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?, a popular book in Egypt, author Galan Amin raises a good question. Thousands of years ago, [...]

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Are You A Company Man or An Entrepreneur?

May 1, 2001

Forecasts & Strategies Personal Snapshots May 2001 By Mark Skousen The most dangerous advice you can give a child is “Go to school, get good grades, and look for a safe, secure job.” —Robert T. Kiyosaki, author Rich Dad, Poor Dad I don’t normally write about the same book twice, but I received so many [...]

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It All Started with Adam

May 1, 2001

Ideas On Liberty Economics on Trial May 2001 by Mark Skousen Adam Smith, that is. Having just completed writing a history of economics,1 I have concluded that, despite the protestations of Murray Rothbard and other detractors, the eighteenth-century moral philosopher and celebrated author of The Wealth of Nations deserves to be named the founding father [...]

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Rich Investor, Poor Investor

April 1, 2001

Forecasts & Strategies Personal Snapshots April 2001 by Mark Skousen “The poor and middle class work for money…. The rich have money work for them.” —Robert T. Kiyosaki, author, Rich Dad, Poor Dad Many of you may have read the best-seller, Rich Dad, Poor Dad. The author, Hawaiian-born Robert Kiyosaki, criticizes his own father, a [...]

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