Investor CAFÉ Newsletters

• This Chart Will Blow Your Mind July 24, 2025
  “We squander health in search of wealth, We scheme and toil and save, Then squander wealth in search of health, And find at last a grave.” --Henry Winn (“Maxims of Wall Street,” p. 21) Happy Pioneer Day (July 24th)! Last month on the Forbes cruise for investors, I showed a series of charts entitled “Amazing […]
• The Warren Buffett Indicator: Is the Stock Market Headed for a Crash? July 17, 2025
  Good news! After six short weeks, my new book, "THE GREATEST AMERICAN," is going into a second printing by Republic Books. Plus it's now available as an audiobook. Amazon still shows the book "temporarily out of stock -- usually ships in one to three weeks," so I suggest you skip Amazon and order the book […]
• Brave New World in One Chart July 10, 2025
  “Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes.” -- Benjamin Franklin During the July 4 weekend, my new book, “THE GREATEST AMERICAN,” was the number one pick on C-SPAN BookTV. My interview with Peter Slen (see below) was shown four times, a grand slam. If you missed it, you can watch the half-hour interview […]
• Here Is My Proposal to Bring Us Together as a Nation July 3, 2025
  “Know him, know us.” -- Ken Burns Earlier this week I was on the Glenn Beck radio show to talk about my new book. He has a following of over 10 million people on 300 radio stations. Glenn introduced me by saying, "The name of the new book by my old friend Mark Skousen is […]
• Alert! New York City Is About to Elect a Marxist/Socialist June 26, 2025
  'The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” -- Karl Marx, words written on his tombstone in Highgate Cemetery, London. In the 1930s, sitting in an Italian prison, Marxist philosopher and journalist Antonio Gramsci wrote in his “Prison Notebooks” that the best way to overthrow Western […]
• Donald Trump Should See This Movie… and Other Controversies June 19, 2025
  “FreedomFest doesn’t just ride the wave, it often invents it.” -- John Fund, National Review   I just returned from another successful FreedomFest, this one in Palm Springs, California. What a great show it was: Over 200 speakers and exhibitors, and 1,500 attendees enjoying four days of an “Oasis in Liberty.” There’s nothing like it […]
• Why This Man Deserves to be on the $100 Bill June 12, 2025
  Special Alert: Major news giant C-SPAN will be filming several sessions live at FreedomFest, including our Global Economic Summit where we will be debating "Trump's Tariff-ying Trade War," starting at 3:50 pm ET TODAY (Thursday, June 12); I'll be moderating the panel which includes Steve Forbes and Art Laffer.  See you there! For our full schedule, go to Home […]
• One Event Like This One Can Transform Society June 5, 2025
  “We must all hang together or we shall surely hang separately.” -- Benjamin Franklin (1776) SPECIAL ALERT: Glenn Beck has invited me to be on his radio show tomorrow morning, Friday, June 6 -- D-Day! -- at 11:34 am ET, to discuss my new book, "THE GREATEST AMERICAN." His show is found on 400 radio […]
• With a Single Click on My Computer, I Doubled My Return May 29, 2025
  “The money that makes money, makes more money.” -- Poor Richard’s Almanac I call it the “Automatic Wealth Builder” -- a simple way to increase your wealth year after year. Here’s the background: One of the most important chapters in my new book, “THE GREATEST AMERICAN,” is chapter 13. In this chapter, I talk about Ben […]
• Is Another Monetary Crisis Brewing? May 22, 2025
  “Celebrity may for a while flatter one’s vanity, but its effects are troublesome.” -- Benjamin Franklin In yesterday’s press conference, I noticed that President Donald Trump has placed the famous Houdon bust of Benjamin Franklin on his desk in the Oval Office. Is he channeling “America’s greatest diplomat,” to quote historian Ken Burns? My new […]