Mark Skousen
How to Identify the #1 Sign of a Bear Market: My Interview with Charles Schwab
“I have always believed in giving investors choices, and with those choices the freedom and power to make their own decisions.” — Charles Schwab, “Invested: Changing Forever the Way Americans Invest” My wife Jo Ann and I had the pleasure this week of sitting down with one of the great innovators on Wall Street — Charles Schwab, […]
SKOUSEN: Global Warming Hysteria Strikes the Earth
“How dare you!” — Greta Thunberg before the United Nations (to thunderous applause) The global warming alarmists are everywhere. Al Gore is back with his scare-mongering. Anti-capitalist Naomi Klein has another new book out, “On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a New Green Deal” and Jeremy Rifkin has written “The New Green Deal: Why the […]
Wall Street Takes a Dive: Is It Time to Get Out of the Stock Market?
“How many insecurities traded today on Wall Street?” — Franz Pick “Everything will end badly.” — Bill Henry “October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.” — Mark Twain The stock market has fallen sharply this […]
SKOUSEN: Democrats Seek to Impeach Trump
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally has given into the desperate Democrats who hate all things involving President Trump and called for impeachment hearings. Is history repeating itself? I remember the Republicans impeaching President Bill Clinton for his sexual escapades in the White House. However, the move backfired and Clinton survived. In fact, the 1990s under […]
Amazing Graph: Is an Era Ending for Warren Buffett?
“Berkshire’s long-term gains… cannot be dramatic and will not come close to those of the past 50 years. It is harder to double the market value of a $100 billion company than a $1 billion company.” — Warren Buffett, 2014 A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column, “Has Warren Buffett Lost his Magic […]
SKOUSEN: Ben Franklin Warns America
“No nation was ever ruined by trade.” — Benjamin Franklin On Constitution Day, I was invited to address the prestigious Wisconsin Forum in Milwaukee. It was my fourth appearance, the most of any speaker in its illustrious history. Past speakers have included Milton Friedman, Henry Hazlitt, Ron Paul and William F. Buckley, Jr. I talked about the dangers of executive power […]