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Is Alan Greenspan Really That Good?

January 1, 2001

Forecasts & Strategies Personal Snapshots January 2001 Is Alan Greenspan Really That Good? By Mark Skousen “He played the game, skillfully …. He helped breath life into the vision of America as strong, the best, invincible.” -Bob Woodward, Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom Last month I listened on audiotape to Bob Woodward’s new [...]

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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 [...]

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Bankrupt Millionaires

October 1, 2000

Personal Snapshots Forecasts & Strategies October 2000 Bankrupt Millionaires by Mark Skousen “In the midst of the biggest economic boom ever, millionaires are going bankrupt.” – Forbes (October 2, 2000) Last March, I reported the findings of Professor Thomas J. Stanley, author of The Millionaire Next Door and The Millionaire Mind, that the rich are [...]

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Having Their Cake

October 1, 2000

Economics on Trial Ideas on Liberty October 2000 Having Their Cake by Mark Skousen “The duty of ‘saving’ became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.” -JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES (1) In his 1920 bestseller, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, John Maynard Keynes made a profound observation about [...]

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What It Takes to Be an Objective Scholar

April 1, 2000

Economics on Trial IDEAS ON LIBERTY April 2000 What It Takes to Be an Objective Scholar by Mark Skousen “It was the facts that changed my mind.” -Julian Simon (1) During the 1990s we watched the Dow Jones Industrial Average increase fourfold and Nasdaq stocks tenfold. Yet there were well-known investment advisers-some of them my [...]

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