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Dr. Mark Skousen is a professional economist, financial advisor, university professor, and author of over 20 books. Since 1980, he has been Editor-in-Chief of Forecasts & Strategies, an investment newsletter published by Eagle Publishing. He is also editor of his own website, MSkousen.com, and three trading services, Skousen Hedge Fund Trader, Skousen High Income Alert, and Skousen Turnaround Trader.

From 1972 to 1975, Mark Skousen was an economic analyst for the CIA. He earned his PhD in economics and monetary history from George Washington University in 1977. Since then, he has been a consultant to IBM, Hutchinson Technology, and other Fortune 500 companies. He has been a columnist for Forbes magazine, and has written articles for The Wall Street Journal, Liberty, Reason and The Journal of Economic Perspectives. Mark Skousen has also appeared on several financial television shows. From 1986 until 2003, Mark Skousen taught economics, finance, and history at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. In 2001-02 he was president of the Foundation of Economic Education (FEE) in New York. In 2004, he was an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.

Forecasts & Strategies (MarkSkousen.com) offers several services:

• The monthly issue offers an analysis of the global and US economy.

• Each issue continues specific recommendations in individual stocks, mutual funds, income investments, precious metals, real estate, and foreign investments.

• Every Monday at noon, Mark Skousen does an updated "hotline", which is available by telephone and MarkSkousen.com.

Skousen Hedge Fund Trader (SkousenHedgeFundTrader.com) is a weekly, short-term trading service in stocks (both long and short) and call and put options. Hedge Fund Trader is not for conservative, buy-and-hold investors. It is intended for subscribers who are willing to monitor their positions regularly, and are comfortable with short-term trading. It uses many of the same trading techniques as the world's top hedge funds, except it is self-managed. There are no net-worth requirements, and subscribers can use their own discount broker.

Whenever Mark Skousen sees an opportunity, he sends a trading alert by e-mail or fax. Each recommendation includes facts behind each trade, as well as explicit trading instructions. Subscriptions to this service are limited to 2,000.

Skousen High-Income Alert (SkousenHighIncomeAlert.com) is a trading strategy designed for people who are looking for a high level of income, but do not want to sacrifice potential capital gains. Mark Skousen seeks to uncover bargain-basement, high-paying opportunities with great capital-gains potential.

The service covers a spectrum of special situation investment opportunities, and whenever Mark Skousen sees an opportunity that fits his criteria of big short-term profit potential and high income, he sends an alert by e-mail or fax. Each recommendation includes the fax behind each trade, as well as explicit trading instructions. Subscribers receive at least one alert per week, either detailing a new opportunity, or updating an existing one. The number of subscriptions to this service is limited.

Skousen Turnaround Trader (TurnaroundTrader.com) is designed for active traders who are looking to profit from stocks that have fallen out of favor and lost a large amount of their value. The key to success is targeting the ones that will recover their value in a short period of time.

A critical part of Mark Skousen's research is to keep an eye on turnaround CEOs and master investors, who seek out companies with good turnaround potential. The characteristics of these companies include stocks selling at less than book value, assets exceeding liabilities, underperforming assets, stock prices and earnings multiples excessively depressed, and so-called "fallen angels".

Whenever Mark Skousen sees an opportunity, he sends an alert by e-mail or fax. Each alert provides a research report on the vital statistics behind each turnaround play, an executive overview of the facts and story behind each situation, instructions on buy and sell points, and a full recap of all open plays. Subscribers receive at least one trading alert per week, either detailing a new turnaround opportunity or an update on existing ones.

Forecasts & Strategies
One Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
customerservice@markskousen.com
1-800-211-7661

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