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Happy Fourth of July…

July 4, 2009

…What We Have to Celebrate and The Trial of the Century! We are expecting over 2000 people to come to this year’s FreedomFest. Come join us! You can sign up at Bally’s Events Center in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening 6-8 pm, or come early for my pre-conference “EconoPower” seminar. Register at (866)266-5101 or at [...]

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More Recent Articles by Mark Skousen

April 15, 2009

This April 15 is finding a lot of people taking a good hard look at the economy and the country. I’ve made some controversial observations in a few of my most recent articles. Please take a look! “Start Your Own Tax Revolt — Without Getting Into Trouble” Human Events Online April 15, 2009 “Was the [...]

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After the Tea Party, What Comes Next?

April 15, 2009

FREEDOMFEST 2009 “The World’s Largest Gathering of Free Minds” July 9-11, 2009, Las Vegas “So good I changed my schedule to attend all 3 days!” — Steve Forbes Dear fellow libertarians and free-marketers, Every year FreedomFest grows and grows. We were up 42% last year to 1400 attendees, because our private conference is different from [...]

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Recent Articles by Mark Skousen

March 26, 2009

I’ve compiled a quick list of a few of my recent articles and appearances in the press, addressing the current economic crisis, as well as the growing freedom movement in response to the power-grab currently going on in Washington. Now is the time for a return to the freedom principles of the free-market and the [...]

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Mark Skousen on Twitter and Facebook

March 3, 2009

Dear Forecasts & Strategies subscribers, We’ve always been able to keep in touch via the monthly newsletter, my appearances at investment conferences around the world, and my weekly hotline. Now I’m on two of the biggest social networking sites on the Internet, Twitter and Facebook. With these two great websites, you can follow my day-to-day, [...]

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How to Be a Great Economic Thinker

January 24, 2009

When I was in college in the 1960s, my economics professor assigned us the popular Keynesian textbook by Paul Samuelson, who advocated inflation, deficit spending, and progressive taxation to stimulate the economy. The supplemental text was The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner, a socialist who never said a word about Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises [...]

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Gun Control's Role in the Mumbai Terror Attacks

December 1, 2008

I came across this story about the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, buried in today’s cover story from the WSJ: “The [Taj Mahal] hotel had metal detectors, but none of its security personnel carried weapons because of the difficulties in obtaining gun permits from the Indian government, according to the hotel company’s chairman, P. R. S. [...]

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Skousen on Human Events Online

December 1, 2008

My latest articles on Human Events Online: A Crash on ‘Green’ Friday Human Events – Washington,DC,USA by Mark Skousen The Humpty Dumpty Economy Human Events – Washington,DC,USA by Mark Skousen Floundering Economic Policy By admin by Mark Skousen

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Another Great Review of EconoPower

December 1, 2008

“Have You Read Any Good Economics Books Lately?” asks the online blog, FAN. Apparently, author Lance Winslow has! And his selection is none other than yours-truly’s EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists Is Transforming the World. A quick excerpt: “This book demonstrates how everything we see, buy, own, do and dream of is indeed governed by [...]

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The Real Story of Thanksgiving

November 27, 2008

An excerpt of The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin, where Franklin tells the “real” story of Thanksgiving. Read a blurb below, and then see the entire article on Human Events Online. Happy Thanksgiving! “At length, when it was proposed in the Assembly to proclaim another fast, a farmer of plain sense rose and remark’d that [...]

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