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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Chicago Gun Show

October 5, 1999

Economics on Trial The Freeman OCTOBER 1999 by Mark Skousen “According to the economic approach, criminals, like everyone else, respond to incentives.” -GARY BECKER(1) The Chicago boys are at it again. This time the economists at the University of Chicago are making headlines in today’s hotly disputed debate about gun control. Milton Friedman set the [...]

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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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Y2K and Entrepreneurial Error

March 28, 1999

ECONOMICS ON TRIAL The Freeman March 1999 by Mark Skousen “No businessman in the real world is equipped with perfect foresight; all make errors.” –Murray N. Rothbard (1) Over the past year, I’ve been involved in a series of debates over the impact of the Year 2000 Problem, the potential collapse of computers–and perhaps the [...]

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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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