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Who's to Blame for ObamaCare? Two Conservatives!

December 30, 2009

(I wrote the following article for Human Events, but apparently it was too controversial and was removed after about 100 e-letters of commentary, both favorable and critical. Read here’s the original op-ed, uncensured.)

By Mark Skousen
This week the Senate grinches stole Christmas. The Obama Nation is getting Obama Care.
It’s easy to blame the [...]

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From Poverty to Riches: Is There a Magic Elixir?

July 1, 2002

From The President’s Desk
Published in Ideas on Liberty
July 2002
by Mark Skousen
“The problem of making poor countries rich was much more difficult than we thought.”
—William Easterly, World Bank1
“If there is one formula for our success, it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work, or how to make them work better.”
—Lee Kuan Yew, [...]

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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 an icon of capitalism, Andrew [...]

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Where Are the Best Schools in Austrian Economics?

July 1, 2001

Ideas On Liberty
Economics on Trial
July 2001
by Mark Skousen
“We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.”
—F. A. Hayek
Frequently students or parents approach me at investment or economics conferences with the question, “Can you recommend an undergraduate or graduate program in free-market economics?” With the explosive interest in a degree in economics, it’s [...]

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Social Security Reform: Lessons from the Private Sector

March 1, 2001

IDEAS ON LIBERTY
Economics on Trial
MARCH 2001
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 1
In the ongoing debate over the privatization of Social Security, one story has been over-looked: The private business sector in the United [...]

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An Enemy Hath Done This

September 1, 2000

Economics on Trial – Ideas on Liberty – SEPTEMBER 2000
by Mark Skousen
“Government measures . . . give individuals an incentive to misuse and misdirect resources and distort the investment of new savings.”
- MILTON FRIEDMAN 1
Several months ago, I had the opportunity of speaking before a Miami chapter of Legatus, a group of Catholic business leaders [...]

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A Much-Deserved Triumph in Supply-Side Economics

February 2, 2000

Economics on Trial
IDEAS ON LIBERTY
February 2000
by Mark Skousen
“After occupying center stage during the 1980s, the supply-side approach to economics disappeared when Ronald Reagan left office.” – Paul Samuelson (1)
Until Robert Mundell won the Nobel Prize in 1999, supply-side economics had been a school without honor among professional economists. Established textbook writers such as Paul [...]

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