Ep. 577 Where Should You Put Your Money? The Answer May Surprise You
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Mark Skousen, the Austrian-friendly editor of the Forecasts & Strategies newsletter for over 35 years, dissents from the advice of what he calls the "doomsayers," and says those people miss a lot of bull markets. I thought my audience would benefit from another perspective. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 577. |
| 0:03.8 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.6 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:35.4 | slash zap. Hello, everybody. Mark Skousen is joining us today to talk about Austrian economics for investors. |
| 0:44.2 | And Mark takes a view that's a little bit different from what you've heard from a lot of other investment advisors who are influenced by Austrian economics. |
| 0:52.0 | So I thought it would be interesting to get another perspective |
| 0:54.3 | on some of these questions. We also want to talk about the GDP and gross output numbers and why |
| 1:01.3 | one is better than the other for understanding what's really going on in the economy. Mark Skousen |
| 1:07.0 | is an economist, investment analyst, newsletter editor, college professor, and author. |
| 1:12.3 | He's the author of over 25 nonfiction books. The one that I want to focus on primarily is |
| 1:18.3 | a Viennese waltz down Wall Street, Austrian economics for investors. I'll have several of |
| 1:24.3 | Mark's titles up at tom Woods.com slash 577. |
| 1:28.8 | He is the editor-in-chief of the financial newsletter, Forecasts and Strategies, and he is also the |
| 1:34.6 | producer of Freedom Fest, the annual gathering in Las Vegas. |
| 1:39.4 | Mark, welcome to the show. |
| 1:40.7 | Thank you, Tom. |
| 1:41.6 | Nice to be with you. |
| 1:43.1 | I don't think I'm revealing anything that |
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