Mark Skousen is a professional economist, investment expert, university professor, and author of over 25 books. He is a weekly contributor to CNBC Kudlow & Co. Currently he holds the Benjamin Franklin Chair of Management at Grantham University. He is a former analyst for the CIA, a columnist to Forbes magazine, chairman of Investment U, and past president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in New York. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Christian Science Monitor, and has appeared on CNBC, CNN, ABC News, Fox News, and C-SPAN Book TV.