Ivory tower type economists. Host theres a picture in your boat here but is this . Guest this is a picture of my wife and i do in a waltz on a cruise ship and i thought i will dedicate this to my waltzing partner through life, my wife, joann scouts. Host the book that has been dedicated is a viennese waltz down wall street. Mark skousen is the founder of freedom fest and the author of this and many other books. This is booktv on cspan 2. Host the United States of paranoia is the name of the book. Heres the cover. The author is someone of recent. Mr. Walker, are americans prepared by people . Guest there has been paranoia at the heart of america for as long as there has been i cant speak to the recorded history. I assume there was paranoia that insert recent colonial days. Political paranoiac, cultural paranoia. I dont want that were more paranoid than any other country. The book is about america, so for all i know the french are paranoid people, but we are certainly scared. Postcode ju
Host mark skousen, what is your background . Guest i am an economist from a group in portland oregon, which was an intellectual town. It has the Worlds Largest bookstore. Ive always been an intellectual type, but i also like music and dance and entertainment and sports. Similar bit of a renaissance man. Worked for the cia. Cant talk about that and then i got into the financial world and that internet ever since. I have a phd in economics. My family lived in washington d. C. , where cspan is. We call it death star. We got tired of the rat race, so we moved the bahamas and lived there for two years. It was life in living color. We saved enough money in taxes and bought a flat in london. Then we moved back to orlando, where kids grew up in either the new york, the Financial Center of the world. Meanwhile, ive been writing writing and investment newsletters sent 1980. Ive written about 25 bucks. I taught at Columbia University and right now im teaching at sing sing penitentiary, which is a
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