Philosophers and Businessmen

This Icon of Capitalism Had the Answers

October 1, 2001

October 2001 PERSONAL SNAPSHOTS Forecasts & Strategies by Mark Skousen “The business career is a stern school of all the virtues. The business man pursues fortune.”— Andrew Carnegie After moving to New York last month to become the president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), I took the opportunity to pay my respects to [...]

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East and West

October 31, 2000

EAST AND WEST “The enjoyment of books has always been regarded among the charms of a cultured life….” -Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (1937) One of the benefits of a cruise is that you get time to read new books. Most people read novels, but I prefer non-fiction. Two books caught my interest on [...]

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The Rise and Fall of an American Icon

August 26, 2000

Forecasts & Strategies Personal Snapshots August 2000 by Mark Skousen “The Chief didn’t believe in the Protestant ethic or trust in Poor Richard’s aphorisms. A penny saved might be a penny earned, but a penny borrowed was worth even more.” – David Nasaw, author The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst In the past [...]

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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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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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The Other Austrian

October 31, 1999

Discovery LIBERTY Magazine The Other Austrian By Mark Skousen Swashbuckling corporate raiders take heed, here’s another Austrian economist offering advice. Peter F. Drucker once walked into the boardroom of a major company in crisis and bluntly demanded, “Gentlemen, what is your business?” Most of the executives thought it was a sophomoric question, but Drucker kept [...]

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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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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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