Mark Skousen is a professional economist, investment expert,

university professor, and author of over twenty books. Currently

he holds the Benjamin Franklin Chair of Management at Grantham

University. In 2004–05, he taught economics and finance at Columbia

Business School and Columbia University, and from 1986 to 2003,

at Rollins College in Florida. Since 1980, Skousen has been editor in

chief of Forecasts & Strategies, a popular award-winning investment

newsletter. He is also chairman of Investment U, one of the largest

investment e-letters in the country, with 300,000 subscribers. He is

a former analyst for the CIA, a columnist to Forbes magazine, and

past president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in

New York. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and

Reason magazine, and has appeared on CNBC, CNN, ABC News,

Fox News, and C-SPAN Book TV. His bestsellers include The Making

of Modern Economics and The Power of Economic Thinking. In

2006, he compiled and edited The Compleated Autobiography, by

Benjamin Franklin. In honor of his work in economics, finance and

management, Grantham University renamed its business school “The

Mark Skousen School of Business.”

Websites: www.markskousen.com; www.mskousen.com

Email address: editors@markskousen.com