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Personal Finance

A Painless Way to Triple Your Savings

June 1, 2002

From The President’s Desk
Published in Ideas on Liberty
June 2002
by Mark Skousen
“The human mind is charming in its unreasonableness, its inveterate prejudices, and its waywardness and unpredictability.”
—LIN YUTANG1
“Behavioral” finance is the hot new field in the rapidly growing “imperial” science of economics. Consider the titles of recent books on the subject: Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller [...]

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Can Money Buy Happiness?

April 1, 2002

Personal Snapshots
Forecasts & Strategies
April 2002
“I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time.” —Hilaire Belloc
I came across a very interesting book the other day called Happiness and Economics: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-Being (Princeton University Press, 2002), by Bruno S. Frey and Alois [...]

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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 complaint letters about my attack [...]

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What If Social Security Was Like a 401(k)?

December 1, 2000

Forecasts & Strategies
Personal Snapshots
December 2000
by Mark Skousen
“Of all social institutions, business is the only one created for the express purpose of making and managing change…. Government is a poor manager.” -Peter F. Drucker, “The Sickness of Government,” The Age of Discontinuity (1969)
In the ongoing debate over the privatization of Social Security, one story has been [...]

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Bankrupt Millionaires

October 1, 2000

Personal Snapshots
Forecasts & Strategies
October 2000
Bankrupt [...]

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