Mark Skousen

He also is the editor of four trading services (Five Star Trader, High-Income Alert, Fast Money Alert, and The 1600 Alert.) and publishes the Investor CAFÉ weekly electronic newsletter.

Skousen is a proponent of Gross Output (GO), an economic concept used to measure total economic activity in the production of new goods and services in an accounting period.

Mark Andrew Skousen (born October 19, 1947) is an American economist and writer.

He currently teaches at Chapman University, where he is since 2022 a Doti-Spogli Chair in Free Enterprise at The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics.

He has previously taught at Columbia Business School, Mercy College, Barnard College, and Rollins College.

Skousen was born on October 19, 1947, in San Diego, California, and grew up in Portland, Oregon.

Conservative political commentator and survival strategist Joel Skousen and linguist Royal Skousen are his older brothers.

He is the nephew of W. Cleon Skousen, the political conservative and activist.

Skousen was an economic analyst for the CIA from 1972 to 1975.

He later worked as a consultant for IBM and Hutchinson Technology, and other companies.

Mark Skousen earned his B.A. and Master's degree in economics from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. in economics from George Washington University in 1977.

Skousen is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He, his wife Jo Ann, and their five children have lived in Washington, D.C.; Nassau, Bahamas; London, England; Orlando, Florida, New York City and Orange, California.

Skousen has been the editor of the Forecasts & Strategies financial newsletter since 1980.

Skousen highlighted the concept in his work, The Structure of Production in 1990.

Skousen has lectured on economics and finance at Columbia Business School, Barnard College at Columbia University, Mercy College in New York, Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida and Chapman University in Orange, California.

He was a columnist for Forbes magazine from 1997 to 2001, and has contributed articles to The Wall Street Journal as well as to various libertarian periodicals.

Skousen served as president of the free market nonprofit Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) from 2001 to 2002.

Skousen's brief tenure as president of FEE ended on a controversial note when he resigned in late 2002 at the request of the organization's board of trustees.

This move followed Skousen's decision to invite, as keynote speaker for FEE's annual Liberty Banquet, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Giuliani proved to be an extremely unpopular choice among many of the organization's board members as well as several prominent libertarians.

During his tenure at FEE, Skousen launched a non-partisan, libertarian conference, then titled "FEEFest," which premiered in Las Vegas in 2002.

After Skousen left the presidency at FEE, the conference continued as "FreedomFest," first under the purview of Young America's Foundation, and later, under Skousen's own direction and ownership.

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In April 2005, distance education provider Grantham University renamed its online School of Business "The Mark Skousen School of Business."

He has been a speaker at investment conferences and has lectured for think tanks, From 2008 to 2010 he was a weekly contributor on CNBC's Kudlow & Company and has also appeared on C-SPAN Book TV and Fox News.

He currently teaches at Chapman University and has been named a "Presidential Fellow" at Chapman University from 2014 to 2017.

In 2018, Skousen was awarded a Triple Crown in Economics by Steve Forbes for his work in economic theory, history and education.