Hot New Video! ObamaCare – Live Your Carefree Lifestyle!

March 29, 2011

Dear Friends of Liberty, Be one of the first to watch this new video, ObamaCare – Live Your Carefree Lifestyle at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkH_aaaSOP0. This video is brought to you by FreedomFest, the World’s Largest Gathering of Free Minds, happening this July 13-16, 2011 at Paris/Bally’s in Las Vegas, the country’s most libertarian city. This year’s conference [...]

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Crazy Economist Defies Gravity and Generates Infinite Returns!

March 17, 2011

The Skousen Hedge Fund Trader (www.markskousen.com) may now hold the world’s record for best return in one day:  9,100%!  When Warren Buffett announced Monday morning that Berkshire Hathaway bought out chemical company Lubrizol (LZ) for $135 a share, our March $120 call options went from 15 cents to $13.80 almost immediately. If you annualize it, the calculator can’t [...]

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Adam Smith Reveals His (Invisible) Hand!

March 9, 2011

Today is the anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s most famous work,  ”The Wealth of Nations” (March 9, 1776). To celebrate this important day, I’ve written an article for FEE on Dan Klein’s discovery about the “deliberate centrality” of the invisible hand in Smith’s work, and what it all means: www.thefreemanonline.org/headline/invisible-hand-middle/ It will appear in print in [...]

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Three Uses for “The Making of Modern Economics”

February 20, 2011

Three uses for my award-winning book, The Making of Modern Economics: Since winning the Choice Book Award for Outstanding Academic Title, my book has been translated into Spanish, given away to all the board members of a major Russian corporation, and read as a main selection of the Boulder Book Club and the Show-Me Institute [...]

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World Economic Summit with Peter Schiff

February 11, 2011

Come join us at the World Economic Summit, Nassau, the Bahamas, February 16-19:   We have just confirmed Peter Schiff, author of “Crash Proof” for our anti-Davos conference.  Plus Steve Moore, the country’s #1 economic analyst and board member of the Wall Street Journal, will be there.  I will also be presenting a special “one-on-one” session with [...]

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Cobden Centre on Skousen Economics Contributions

February 9, 2011

The Cobden Centre is the world’s largest international website devoted to “honest money and social progress” based in London and founded by Toby Baxendale, the libertarian businessman who funds the annual Hayek chair at the London School of Economics. They have just published a paper by Prof. Ken Schoolland (Hawaii Pacific University) on my contributions to economics: ”Mark Skousen’s [...]

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The Super Bowl, Ronald Reagan and Ben Franklin

February 6, 2011

It’s SuperBowl Sunday….. It’s Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday….. ….and I just returned from a triumphal appearance at Ben Franklin at the CNP (Council for National Policy) meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. I was afraid it could bomb because I had to stay in character for three hours, including an hour at the cocktail reception, where [...]

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Mark Skousen’s Top Ten Favorite Articles

January 27, 2011

Here’s a list of my favorite articles that I’ve written over the years. I hope you enjoy them, too! 1. Lin Yutang and the Art of Letting Go 2. My Friendly Fights with Milton Friedman 3. Easy Living: My Two Years in the Bahamas 4. Atlas Shrugged: 50 Years Later 5. Weighing the Golden Heroes [...]

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New Edition of “Economics of a Pure Gold Standard”

January 27, 2011

Great News! Just released:  A new 4th edition of “The Economics of a Pure Gold Standard,” with a new introduction, by the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE).  This edition tells why more central banks fear the dollar as a reserve currency and are buying gold. To obtain a copy, go to amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Economics-Pure-Gold-Standard-Skousen/dp/1453753087/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_7 Only $12 [...]

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A Great Opportunity For Austrian Economists at the AEA Meetings

January 9, 2011

On January 7-8, I attended the American Economic Association (AEA) meetings in Denver, Colorado.  Usually around 10,000 economists attend this annual conference. I substituted for Tyler Cowen, who was supposed to be one of the panelists for a session entitled, ”What’s Wrong (and Right) with Economics?  Implications of the Financial Crisis.” Cowen’s assigned topic was “Lessons [...]

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