Despite recent setbacks, the free-market revolution unleashed by Ronald Reagan continues to make strides in country after country.

Unfortunately, those countries don't include the United States.

Here, the trend is towards what has been dubbed "Obamunism," which, if coined by one of his czars, was surely meant as a compliment. This same economic philosophy used to be known as Carternomics, described by Reagan as: "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it."

But back to the good news...

Surprisingly, the latest country to show signs of new economic freedom is, of all places, Cuba -- where, according to the Washington Post, "The Cuban government, in its most dramatic reform since [Raul] Castro took over for his ailing older brother Fidel three years ago, is offering private farmers... the use of fallow state lands to grow crops -- for a profit."

In fact, it's working so well, they're even thinking about renaming "The Bay of Pigs" to "The Bay of Capitalist Pigs"... But I digress...

Even more surprisingly, the Post didn't include some derogatory qualifier before the word "profits" in the sentence quoted above, perhaps having recently noticed the desirability of "profits" on account of the absence of such a concept from the Post's balance sheet. It's so bad over there, the Washington Post's Facebook account was recently de-friended by the IRS Fan Page.

Maybe U.S. pharmaceutical companies should think about relocating to Cuba. Just being awarded Fidel Castro's personal prescription benefit account would be worth a small fortune.

Of course, the Cubans don't call what they're doing "capitalism," just as Obama doesn't call what he's doing "socialism" -- and just as Ralph Nadar doesn't call his hair "Bird's Nestism," Joe Biden's doctor doesn't call his condition "Diarrhea of the Mouth-ism," Nancy Pelosi's plastic surgeon doesn't call her "his annuity," and Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't call it, well, I couldn't really understand what he said...

Instead, Raul Castro is calling it "the new Socialist model." (If they were smart, they would focus on the newest Eastern European models -- but enough about Charlie Sheen.) Which is almost as Orwellian as Barack Obama calling his proposed government takeover of one-sixth of the American economy as an attempt to "foster competition."

And it's not just communist countries like Cuba, China, and Vietnam, noticing the benefits of the free market. Even godless, European social welfare states are throwing off the shackles of socialism. Despite incessant claims that the "rest of the world hates us," Germany just elected a center-right coalition that promised to slash taxes, entitlements, and regulatory burdens on businesses.

Every country in the world is becoming more like America, except America, which is becoming more like Finland.

But don't move to Cuba yet! At least wait until Nancy Pelosi's husband buys property there -- then you know it will prosper. As Ronald Reagan said: You can always trust the American people. Sure, they make stupid mistakes now and then, but, if history is a guide, the backlash to the high tax/low growth policies of a Democratic House, Democratic Senate, and Democratic President should be spectacular. It's currently scheduled for November 2012, with spring training beginning in November 2010 .

Then happy days will really be here again.

But in the meantime, what can we do to protect our money from the Obamunists?

Frankly, I don't have the financial expertise to answer that. But fortunately, I know someone who does.

His name is Mark Skousen, Ph.D., editor of the investment newsletter Forecasts & Strategies -- and he just might be the smartest financial advisor working today.

Skousen, after all, launched his career by predicting, during the 1980-82 recession -- and to the derision of all the other so-called experts -- that "Reaganomics will work."

And that was just the start of his amazing 30-year -- and counting -- stretch of uncanny market forecasts. For instance:

• Just last March he called the exact bottom of the market, telling his subscribers that "stocks are a screaming buy." In the four weeks following, the Dow soared a remarkable 24.5%. Then, in May, he predicted the Dow would hit 10,000 before the end of the year -- which it did in October.
• In 2006 -- more than two years before the financial meltdown -- he warned subscribers that "we clearly are headed for fiscal disaster," and showed them how to protect themselves.
• Just weeks before the NASDAQ collapsed in 2000, he warned his subscribers that tech stocks were dangerously overvalued.
• He told his subscribers in 1995 that the NASDAQ would double, and then double again -- which is exactly what it did.
• He called the Gulf War of 1990 "a turning point for U.S. stocks" -- and the Dow subsequently began a bull market that didn't end for nearly ten years.
• And he issued a "sell everything" recommendation to his Forecasts & Strategies subscribers just 41 days before the stock market crash of 1987 -- then told them to get fully invested again several weeks later, just in time for the recovery.

( He also guessed Al Gore's weight and won a large stuffed animal from the top shelf... nothing to do with finance, but still, pretty impressive.)

What's Mark Skousen's secret? Suffice it to say that, as a brilliant free-market economist (he's written 26 books on the topic), he knows more about the real workings of the financial markets than all of Obama's advisors put together and multiplied by 100. (Which by my calculations, still comes out to... let's see, yes: Zero.)

And here's the best thing about Mark Skousen. He knows how to make you money -- and keep more of it from the IRS, legally, than you ever thought possible -- even while Obamunists are taking a wrecking ball to the U.S. economy.

Bottom line: The best investment advice I know of, bar none, can be found in Mark Skousen's Forecasts & Strategies. Now more than ever, I urge you to give it a try.

President Obama, we don't have to put a bad budget into place to wait on the failure of that budget. It saddens me to think that with all of your "promises", you are just another politician. I am not a fan of yours in any way. However, that did not prevent me from being cautiously optimistic about your "meaning well" and "trying to do well".

I read somewhere that long before you became President that you said that the CBO was a puppet of the then prevailing party in office. I wonder what changed. Seems to me that you have taken advantage of the very thing you railed against earlier in your career.

I want to see health care...I want people to be able to go to the doctor...but the bill you just signed into law is far too pervasive and the side effects of Obama Healthcare are going to be seen for what they are. Something impossible to finance without bankrupting the country.

One last thing, no more hominys, you shouldn't tell reasonably intelligent people to wait and see. Not people of the US who can add. Mr. President, your Obama Healthcare doesn't add up.

This bill is not pro-anything except to get you written into history for what you now believe to be a good thing and I promise you that you will later find to be just as bad as we "Conservatives" have seen it to be.

Repeal it and start over.

Shaking up years of energy policy and his own environmental backers, President Barack Obama threw open a huge swath of East Coast waters and other protected areas in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico to drilling Wednesday, widening the politically explosive hunt for more homegrown oil and gas.