Editing Harry Browne (section)

==Career==

===Armed services===

He was inducted into the [[U.S. Army]] on May 5, 1953. He went to the Southwestern Signal Corps Training Center at [[Camp San Luis Obispo]], California to study [[cryptography]]. On October 4, 1953, he was sent to [[Bikini Atoll]] in the [[Marshall Islands]], where the 1954 [[Operation Castle]] [[hydrogen bomb]] tests were conducted.{{cn|date=December 2023}}

In 1955, Browne was sent to [[Eniwetok]] to finish his tour of duty and afterwards was transferred to the Army Reserves at [[Fort Huachuca]], Arizona. He was released from active military service on July 17, 1956. He was honorably discharged from the armed forces on February 28, 1961, and discharged from the Army Reserves on July 1, 1961.{{cn|date=December 2023}}

===Activist and author===

Browne worked as an advertising and sales executive in the 1960s. He then devoted himself full-time to the "[[Americanism (ideology)|Americanist]]" cause. He believed that the newspapers of America would willingly buy material promoting the American way of life; so, in 1961 he took on the proprietorship of American Way Features, Inc., a newspaper feature service, and as managing editor inaugurated a plan to turn the service from a subsidized program into a profit-making service. It sold "Americanist" features, in competition with all the recognized syndicates. His own column, The American Way, appeared in over 200 newspapers throughout America.

In the summer of 1962, Browne was named the advertising manager for the Liberty Amendment Committee's bimonthly ''American Progress for Economic Freedom''. In October he was named associate editor, and in November he was the editor. The following Spring the magazine was renamed ''Freedom Magazine'', and Browne continued as its editor until February 1964 when he turned his full-time attention to the American Way Features, Inc.

===Investment theory and the "Permanent Portfolio" concept===

Also in the 1960s, Browne taught courses such as: The Economics of Freedom, The Tools of Success, Tools of the Market, The Economics of Success, and The Art of Profitable Living". Browne was an investment advisor for much of his life and developed the so-called "[[Fail-Safe Investing|permanent portfolio]]" investment strategy, which claims to identify the four types of economic conditions that can apply over a given investment period, and the appropriate asset classes that give both profit from the upside of these conditions, and some measure of protection when they cease to prevail.

Browne published his first book, ''How You Can Profit From The Coming Devaluation'', in 1970. Browne's second book, ''[[How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World]]'', was published in 1973. ''You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis'' was Browne's third book. He continued to write and publish books including his personal finance book, ''[[Fail-Safe Investing|Fail-Safe Investing: Lifelong Financial Security in 30 Minutes]]'', published in 2001.<ref>{{cite news |first=Brian |last=Doherty |url=https://reason.com/2006/03/02/harry-browne-rip/ |title=Harry Browne, R.I.P. |work=Reason Magazine |date=March 2, 2006 |access-date=June 18, 2012 |archive-date=November 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129143319/https://reason.com/2006/03/02/harry-browne-rip/ |url-status=live }}</ref> According to Browne's web site, he was a consultant to the Permanent Portfolio Fund which utilizes some of the investment strategies described in his book, ''Fail-Safe Investing''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://harrybrowne.org/|title=Harry Edson Browne : June 17, 1933 - March 1, 2006|website=Harrybrowne.org|access-date=June 25, 2008|archive-date=July 1, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080701202324/http://harrybrowne.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> Browne also authored books and gave lectures on actively living a libertarian lifestyle.  His book ''How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World'' gave a detailed explanation of how one can bring libertarian concepts to every aspect of one's life.  His posthumously released 1960s lecture series, "The Art of Profitable Living," was released as a 20-CD album titled, "Rule Your World."