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The For-Profit Antipoverty Agency

November 15, 1999

Ideas Matter F0RBES November 15, 1999 The For-Profit Antipoverty Agency by Mark Skousen This summer’s spectacle of World Bank officials lobbying Congress for more foreign aid money was an embarrassment, or should have been. In the past half-century the bank has poured a staggering $450 billion in loans, grants and other aid into the Third [...]

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You Be the Banker

September 7, 1998

CLOSED-END FUND SURVEY Forbes September 7, 1998 You Be The Banker by Mark Skousen If credit risk bothers you less than interest rate risk, consider owning a prime rate fund. Two rules of thumb on buying closed-end funds, elucidated elsewhere in this survey, have to do with the cost of ownership. One is that you [...]

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The Exuberant Wade Cook

December 1, 1997

Ideas Matter FORBES By Mark Skousen The first time I met Wade B. Cook was at a seminar for small investors in the early 1980s, when real estate and other inflation hedges were the rage. Cook gave a workshop on how to buy and sell mortgages–”discounted paper”–for quick profits, which he called the Real Estate [...]

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How to Keep off The Forbes Four Hundred

October 20, 1997

Ideas Matter FORBES How to Keep off The Forbes Four Hundred By Mark Skousen “You see that man over there driving that tractor,” my father asked me as we drove by a farm. “He’s a millionaire.” This was in the 1950s. There weren’t a lot of millionaires around in the 1950s. Only my father, who [...]

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Welcome back, Professor

September 22, 1997

Ideas Matter FORBES By Mark Skousen Millions of college undergraduates, myself included, studied economics using Paul A. Samuelson’s famous textbook. My first economics course, at Brigham Young University, used the 7th edition (1967). Since its first edition in 1948, Economics has sold more than 4 million copies and has been translated into 41 languages. It [...]

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