Dr. Mark Skousen is a professional economist, financial advisor, university professor, and author of over 20 books. In 2004, he was an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. In 2001-02, he was president of the Foundation of Economic Education (FEE) in New York.

From 1986 until 2003, Skousen taught economics, finance and history at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.

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 a 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, 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 editor of three trading services, Skousen Hedge Fund Trader, Skousen High Income Alert and Skousen Turnaround Trader.

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 Economics on Trial (McGraw Hill, 1991), Puzzles and Paradoxes in Economics (Edward Elgar Publishers, 1997), and The Making of Modern Economics (M. E. Sharpe, 2001).

His financial bestsellers include The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy (Simon & Schuster, 1983), High Finance on a Low Budget (Bantam, 1981), and Scrooge Investing (Little Brown, 1995; McGraw Hill, 1999). His latest book is The Power of Economic Thinking (Foundation for Economic Education, 2002), and in 2005, the University of Chicago Press plans on publishing his book, Vienna and Chicago: A Tale of Two Schools of Free-Market Economics.

He also was editor of the investment series,"Secrets of the Great Investors," with Louis Rukeyser as narrator.

Dr. Skousen is the creator and producer 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 traveled and lectured throughout the United States and in 65 countries. He was recently ranked the #1 speaker by the American Association of Individual Investors. He and his wife, Jo Ann, and five children have lived in Washington, DC; Nassau, the Bahamas; London, England; Orlando, Florida; and New York.