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Mark Skousen

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The opening Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) address by Allan Meltzer, of Carnegie-Mellon University, warned attendees that the welfare system in America is getting out of control and could result in slow economic growth for years to come.

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In 2008, two economists came up with three simple questions to test the financial knowledge of citizens 55 years or older. See how well you do.

[Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building]
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Most Austrian economists argue that the best response to the 2008 financial crisis was to “do nothing.”

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The libertarian movement will truly arrive when The New York Times does a serious article on the #1 libertarian think tank (Cato Institute), the #1 libertarian TV show (Stossel on Fox) and the #1 libertarian conference (www.freedomfest.com).

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Deficits have been shrinking since 2009, when we hit the bottom of the Great Recession.

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As a champion of the federal government’s decision to begin reporting the Gross Output (GO) statistic on a quarterly basis earlier this year, I consider the latest variation of the GDP reading from the first quarter to the second quarter as evidence of the value of having an alternative indicator for economic growth.