Forecasts & Strategies

Yes, The Rich Are Different — They’re Better

March 5, 2000

Personal Snapshots Forecasts & Strategies March 2000 by Mark Skousen “The rich are different from you and me.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald “Yes, they have more money.” — Ernest Hemingway In 1996 when I jogged with President Clinton (see My Jog with Bill Clinton), I complained about his constant attacks on the wealthy. During the [...]

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Greed is Good — NOT!

February 5, 2000

Personal Snapshots Forecasts & Strategies February 2000 by Mark Skousen “Unbridled avarice is not in the least the equivalent of capitalism, still less its ‘spirit.’” — Max Weber Recently I heard free-market economist Walter Williams speak at a local college about capitalism. He quoted approvingly from Gordon Gekko, the fictional character of the film Wall [...]

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What Are the Bears Missing?

January 31, 2000

Forecasts & Strategies Personal Snapshots January 2000 What Are the Bears Missing? By Mark Skousen “He has been wrong about the stock market for a decade, he said, because he is a contrarian.” — The New York Times, December 26, 1999 The 1990s has turned out to be the best-performing decade of the 20th century [...]

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GUESS WHO?

September 5, 1999

Forecasts & Strategies Personal Snapshots by Mark Skousen Which famous economist endorses the deficit-spending actions the federal government took during the Great Depression, prefers John Maynard Keynes over Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises, recommends printing more money as a short-term solution to Japan’s problems, and is strongly opposed to the gold standard? Paul Samuelson? [...]

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Las Vegas: America’s Playground

July 28, 1999

Forecasts & Strategies Personal Snapshots by Mark Skousen “Americans are, above all, a problem-solving people.” –Paul Johnson, A History of the American People The transformation of Las Vegas is a perfect example of why the United States of America is still the greatest country in the world. After World War II, developers created in the [...]

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Who is the Greatest Economist of the 20th Century?

February 5, 1999

WHO IS THE GREATEST ECONOMIST OF THE 20TH CENTURY? “But half a century later, it is Keynes who has been toppled and (_________________), the fierce advocate of free markets, who is preeminent.” –Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights, p. 15. Who deserves to be the greatest economist of the 20th century? This question [...]

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Darwin on Wall Street

August 31, 1998

Darwin on Wall Street Mark Skousen Forecasts & Strategies August 1998 “No other theory or concept ever imagined by man can equal in boldness and audacity this claim — that everything revolves around human existence — that all the starry heavens, that every species of life, that every characteristic of reality exists for mankind and [...]

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