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In the News

Who's to Blame for ObamaCare? Two Conservatives!

December 30, 2009

(I wrote the following article for Human Events, but apparently it was too controversial and was removed after about 100 e-letters of commentary, both favorable and critical. Read here’s the original op-ed, uncensured.)

By Mark Skousen
This week the Senate grinches stole Christmas. The Obama Nation is getting Obama Care.
It’s easy to blame the [...]

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I Appear on the Nightly Business Report with Paul Kangas

August 24, 2009

MARK SKOUSEN, Editor of “Forecasts & Strategies.” Paul asks Mark if he has any predictions about the Dow. Mark also offers some new stock recommendations. Push play to watch the interview. (You need Flash installed to watch video.)
Watch the Video.

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Start Your Own Tax Revolt — Without Getting In Trouble

April 15, 2009

From Human Events
“A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“Little else is required to carry a state to the highest level of opulence but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.” ~ Adam Smith
Today, on April 15 Tax Day, hundreds of thousands of citizens are protesting out of control [...]

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Was the Great Depression Good for Us?

April 14, 2009

From Human Events

“Everything was all right in those years, but only if you had a job.” ~ Grandmother of Amity Shlaes in The Forgotten Man

Can the worst of times also be the best of times? When we think of the Great Depression of the 1930s, we are quick to recall the soup lines, bank closings, [...]

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Mark Skousen In the News and On the Web

March 26, 2009

Has Keynes Trumped Adam Smith?
By Mark Skousen
February 27, 2009
A nice reprint of one of my articles on a web blog. A great way to spread the word.
“Market Monitor” — Mark Skousen, Editor, Forecasts & Strategies
with Paul Kangas, Nightly Business Report, PBS, Friday, March 06, 2009
Link to transcript of the show
Steve’s Serendipities: Persuasion vs. Force [...]

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Glenn Beck puts Cleon Skousen at #1 on Amazon

March 16, 2009

Well, he did it. Glenn Beck has put my uncle Cleon’s book, The 5,000 Year Leap: 28 Principles that Changed the World (How the US Constitution Inspired America’s Greatness) #1 on Amazon.com.
The guy is incredible.
I was on his show a couple of weeks ago, and he told me between commercials, “Cleon Skousen’s book [...]

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Will we survive Obamanomics?

March 5, 2009

From the Gilroy Dispatch
Officially, President Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget is titled “A New Era of Responsibility.”
That’s false on two counts. It’s an era – not of responsibility, but of big-government taxation, spending, and regulation. And it’s not new. History is full of attempts to inflate the state to grow the economy. Virtually all have ended [...]

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Proof Is in the Dow

March 2, 2009

From Human Events
“The Obama budget is nothing less than an attempt to end the ideas of Ronald Reagan.” — New York Times
Adam Smith, the father of free-market economics, once stated, “There is much ruin in a nation.”  President Obama is out to prove it in his Newspeak program he calls “A New Era of Responsibility.”  [...]

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Obamanomics Is Making Matters Worse

February 24, 2009

From Human Events
Unfortunately, the [Keynesian] balance week is unbalanced. ~ Milton Friedman
We have outlived the short-run and are suffering from the long-run consequences of [Keynesian] policies. ~ Ludwig von Mises
Last week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced another solution to the financial crisis — his new “Financial Stability Plan.” Since the announcement, Citigroup has fallen 51 [...]

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Dan Quayle

January 1, 2001

What a pleasant conversation we had when I had dinner with Dan Quayle earlier this year. Quayle didn’t dominate the conversation as my wife Jo Ann and I might expect from a former Vice-President; he was gracious and a good listener.
Dan talked about his support for some form of private Social Security accounts for younger [...]

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