Young America's Foundation

MARCH 10, 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT
ANDREW COFFIN (805) 957-1980

NOTED ECONOMIST TO LEAD NEW ECONOMIC EDUCATION INITIATIVES
FOR YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION

SANTA BARBARA, CA - Young America's Foundation President Ron

Robinson is

proud to announce that noted economist and author Dr. Mark Skousen

has been

named as the Foundation's first Director of Economic Education. In

this role,

Dr. Skousen will promote the principles of free market economics

through

seminars, lectures, and publications aimed at America's high school

and

college students. These new programs will complement Young America's
Foundation's ever-expanding role in shaping the hearts and minds of

future

leaders through the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national

defense,

free enterprise, and traditional values.

              "I'm thrilled to have Dr. Skousen as part of our team.

Mark

brings impressive credentials, a wealth of experience, and unique,

exciting

ideas to this position," said Robinson of the appointment.

    Dr. Skousen is a professional economist, financial advisor,

university

professor, and author of over 20 books. Dr. Skousen is currently a

professor

of economics and finance at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida,

and was

recently a guest lecturer at Columbia Business School at Columbia

University

in New York. In 2001-02, he was president of the Foundation for

Economic

Education and publisher of Laissez Faire Books. In the early 1970s,

Dr.

Skousen was an economic analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency

(CIA).

Since then, he has been a consultant to IBM, Hutchinson Technology,

and

several other Fortune 500 companies. He has written articles for

Forbes, The

Wall Street Journal, Liberty, Reason, and The Journal of Economic
Perspectives, and has appeared on ABC News, CNBC Power Lunch, CNN,

and C-SPAN

Book TV.

    For the past 23 years, Dr. Skousen has been the editor in chief

of

Forecasts & Strategies, a popular investment newsletter published by

Phillips

Publishing Inc. He earned his Ph. D. in economics from George

Washington

University in 1977. Since then, his books have included Economics on

Trial,

Puzzles and Paradoxes in Economics, and The Making of Modern

Economics. His

financial bestsellers include The Complete Guide to Financial

Privacy, High

Finance on a Low Budget (co-authored with his wife, Jo Ann) and

Scrooge

Investing. His latest book is The Power of Economic Thinking.

      "I am delighted to be associated with Ron Robinson and Young

America's

Foundation. Part of the Foundation's commitment to freedom involves
understanding and promoting the principles of sound economics, and I

look

forward to expanding this role as Director of Economic Education.

Now more

than ever, the world needs to learn more from the ideas and

principles of

Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Henry Hazlitt

and other

great free-market economists."

    Young America's Foundation is an educational organization

promoting

conservative ideas on our nation's campuses through lectures,

publications,

and conferences. This past academic year, the Foundation sponsored

over 300

lectures, including addresses by Ann Coulter, Ben Stein and John

Stossel. In

addition, Young America's Foundation saved President Reagan's

Western White

House - Rancho del Cielo in Santa Barbara, California - to serve as

the

centerpiece of its Reagan Ranch Program.

    For further information on some of the programs planned by Dr.

Skousen,