Specialties: Capitalism, Free Market, Free Trade, Business, Banking, Philosophy of Economics, Antitrust

Richard M. Salsman, CFA, is founder, president and chief market strategist of InterMarket Forecasting, Inc., an investment research and forecasting firm based in Chapel Hill, NC. Mr. Salsman is a noted authority on banking and capitalism. He is the author of two books, Gold and Liberty (1995) and Breaking the Banks: Central Banking Problems and Free Banking Solutions (1990). Mr. Salsman’s articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, Forbes, and The National Post (Canada). Mr. Salsman lectures widely at investment gatherings and at universities such as Harvard University, the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley.

Books

• Breaking the Banks
• Gold and Liberty
• Why Businessmen Need Philosophy (contributing author)
• The Abolition of Antitrust (contributing author)

Panels

• Panel Discussion on the Economy (2003)

Lectures

• The Philosophy of the Austrian School of Economics

• Economics and Rational Self-Interest

• The Philosophic State of Economics

• The “Invisible Hand” Comes to Life

• Antitrust: The Path to Abolition

• The Cause and Consequence of the Great Depression

• Wall Street Under Siege

• Corporate Environmentalism and Other Suicidal Tendencies

• America’s Health-Care Crisis

• Capitalism’s Economist: The Life & Work of Jean-Baptiste Say

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