Mark Skousen

Dr. Mark Skousen

Dr. Mark Skousen is a professional economist, financial advisor, university professor, and author of over 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 press release from Grantham University.) In 2001-02, he was president of the Foundation of Economic Education (FEE) in New York.

From 1972-75, Skousen was an economic analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (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 (1997-2001), 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.

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.

In 2005, he became the Chairman of Investment U, one of the largest investment e-letters in the country, with over 300,000 subscribers.

He earned his Ph.D. in economics and monetary history from George Washington University in 1977. Since then he has written over 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 Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes? (Capitol Press, 2005), and in 2006, M. E. Sharpe will publish The Big Three in Economics.

Dr. Skousen also served as editor of the investment series, "Secrets of the Great Investors," with Louis Rukeyser as narrator.

Mark is also the founder of FreedomFest, an annual gathering of the freedom movement from around the world, held every May in Las Vegas.

Dr. Skousen has lived in eight nations, and traveled and lectured throughout the United States and in 70 countries. He grew up in Portland, Oregon. He and his wife, Jo Ann, and five children have lived in Washington, DC; Nassau, the Bahamas; London, England; Orlando, Florida; and New York.

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