Dr. Mark Skousen
Investment U Advisory Panelist
Dr. Mark Skousen is a professional economist, financial advisor, university professor and author of more than 20 books. Dr. Skousen has taught economics and finance at Columbia Business School, Barnard College at Columbia University and Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. In April 2005, Grantham University honored Dr. Skousen by renaming its School of Business “The Mark Skousen School of Business.” (Read the press release from Grantham University.) In 2001-02, he was president of the Foundation of Economic Education (FEE) in New York.
From 1972-75, Dr. Skousen was an economic analyst for the CIA. Since then, he has been a consultant to IBM, Hutchinson Technology, and other Fortune 500 companies. He has been a columnist for Forbes magazine (1997-01), and has written articles for The Wall Street Journal, Liberty, Reason, and The Journal of Economic Perspectives. He has appeared on ABC News, CNBC Power Lunch, CNN, Fox News, and C-SPAN Book TV.
Since 1980, Dr. Skousen has been editor in chief of Forecasts & Strategies, a popular award-winning investment newsletter published by Eagle Publishing in Washington, D.C. (www.markskousen.com).
He is also editor of his own website, www.mskousen.com, and three trading services, Skousen Hedge Fund Trader; High Income Alert; and Turnaround Trader.
From 2005-2007, Mark was the Chairman of Investment U, one of the largest investment e-letters in the country, with more than 300,000 subscribers. Now, Mark is the editor of his own free e-letter, The Worldly Philosophers, at www.worldlyphilosophers.com.
He earned his Ph.D. in economics and monetary history from George Washington University in 1977. Since then he has written more than 20 books, including The Structure of Production (New York University Press, 1990); Economics on Trial (McGraw Hill, 1991); Puzzles and Paradoxes in Economics (Edward Elgar Publishers, 1997); Economic Logic (Capital Press, 2000); The Making of Modern Economics (M. E. Sharpe, 2001); and The Power of Economic Thinking (Foundation for Economic Education, 2002).
His financial bestsellers include: The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy (Simon & Schuster, 1983); High Finance on a Low Budget (Bantam, 1981), co-authored with his wife Jo Ann; and Scrooge Investing (Little Brown, 1995; McGraw Hill, 1999). His latest book is The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin (Regnery Publishing, 2005). Also published in 2005 was Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes? (Capitol Press, 2005); and in 2006, M. E. Sharpe will publish The Big Three in Economics. See Mark Skousen’s Recommended Books.
Dr. Skousen also served as editor of the investment series, “Secrets of the Great Investors,” with Louis Rukeyser as narrator.
Mark is the founder of FreedomFest, an annual gathering of the freedom movement from around the world, held every May in Las Vegas (www.freedomfest.com).
Dr. Skousen has lived in eight nations, and has traveled and lectured throughout the United States and in 70 countries. He grew up in Portland, OR. He and his wife, Jo Ann, and their five children have lived in Washington, D.C.; Nassau, the Bahamas; London, England; Orlando, FL; and New York.
Read Investment U’s interview with Dr. Mark Skousen, past Chairman and current Advisory Panelist for Investment U.
You can view previous articles by Mark Skousen below, or explore the Investment U archives.
- Portfolio Management: Why You Should Own "Counter-Cyclical Stocks"
- The Five-Step Market-Beating Formula for Successful Investing
- How I Met Warren Buffett in Prison
- The Growing Tax Threats to Your Investment Portfolio
- Vanguard's Jack Bogle: Investors Take Heed... A Financial Crisis is Imminent
- The Harry Markopolos Interview: The No. 1 Danger Investors Still Face
- The Fed Raises the Discount Rate: What It Means For You
- My Confrontation With Ben Bernanke: The Question He Refused to Answer
- Steve Levitt Interview: Opinions on "ObamaCare" and "Freakonomics" 101
- Bill Clinton's Thoughts On Obama's Tax-and-Spend Policies
- As the Dow Cracks 10,000... What's Next for the Market?
- Debunking The Paradox of Thrift: Why Consumer Spending Won't Save Our Economy
- How to Grab Significant Short-Term Profits From Technical Analysis
- Three Investing Lessons from Bernie Madoff
- The Friedman Effect: Is Another Bear Market Around the Corner?
- Insights from Jeremy Siegel: 3 Reasons Why The Dow Will Hit 10,000 in 2009
- Buying Real Estate: This Century's Greatest Investment
- The Best Ways to Buy Gold and Silver Now
- Canadian Banks: An Oasis of Financial Calm
- John Maynard Keynes: How to Make 30% From an 80-Year-Old Investment Strategy
- Stock Indexed Annuities: A Powerful Investment For Getting Back to Even
- Short Sellers: Why They Are The Heroes, Not Villains, of Wall Street
- Investment Risk: How to Avoid the 4 Most Dangerous Pitfalls of Investing
- Is Bill Gates the New Ben Franklin?
- Why Stocks Do Better When Congress Is Out of Session
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