How not to be underneath when it collapses. Article by Doug French.
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3/29/2012
Why MF Global Went Down
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Doug French on their fractional reserves.
12/15/2011
Who Helps the People During Disasters?
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Waffle House, not the armed bureaucrats, says Doug French.
9/8/2011
The Greatness of Waffle House
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Doug French on delicious, cheap, capitalist food.
8/22/2011
The Higher-Ed Bubble
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It's popped, says Doug French.
8/13/2011
Bernanke Wears Prada
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Doug French on easy money and the luxo-boom.
6/29/2011
Eat the Savers?
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That's the society-destroying, Marxo-Keynesian motto of the Fed.
4/14/2011
Is It Really Higher-Ed?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french137.html
Doug French on an ivied scam.
2/10/2011
12/16/2010
Mail Your House Keys to the Banksters
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french135.html
And wave goodbye. It's the moral and practical thing to do, says Doug French.
12/2/2010
Love Horse Racing as Burt Blumert Did?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french134.html
Then go see Secretariat, says Doug French.
10/19/2010
The Scum of the Earth
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Doug French on those who seek power.
10/5/2010
Your Common Sense and Austrian Economics vs. Bernanke and Keynes
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french132.html
Doug French on why falling prices are good for you and the economy.
8/12/2010
Sinking?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french131.html
Doug French on the cruise business, post-meltdown.
6/9/2010
Free Market Thinking Is on the March
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french130.html
Doug French on Mises and the Austrian School.
5/18/2010
Gold and Guns
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french128.html
Doug French on what the smarter sort are doing.
1/4/2010
The Dollar Meltdown
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french126.html
Doug French on the new classic by Charles Goyette.
11/2/2009
A Young Champion of Liberty
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french125.html
Doug French on the passing of Mike Ziegler.
10/20/2009
The Zero Discount Value of Gold and Dethroning the Dollar
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/rozeff317.html
10/20/2009
Gangs of DC
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french124.html
Doug French on the violent, unemployment-producing, government-privileged, Obama-loving mobs called unions.
9/24/2009
Bubblenomics
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french123.html
Doug French on the illusion of wealth.
8/21/2009
You Can’t Print Prosperity
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french122.html
Doug French on the runaway Fed.
7/27/2009
Enemies of Mankind
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french121.html
Doug French on Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Fed's first Great Depression.
7/15/2009
7/3/2009
Bankruptcies Are Good News
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french119.html
They're the clean-up from the Fed's destructive boom.
6/24/2009
Dead Banks Walking
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french117.html
Doug French on the Fed's favorite zombies.
6/16/2009
Strip Club Depression
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french118.html
Doug French on yet another boom business gone bust.
6/15/2009
A Mustard Seed at the Kentucky Derby
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french116.html
Doug French on a non-CNBC, non-Bernanke green shoot.
5/11/2009
Is Obama a Money Crank?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french115.html
Doug French on the link to John Law, the craziest of them all.
4/30/2009
The Real Estate Bust
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french114.html
It's far from over, says Doug French.
4/9/2009
It Didn’t Begin With Greenspan
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french113.html
Doug French on bubble history.
4/7/2009
The Trouble With Warren Buffett
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french112.html
Doug French on the inflationist-statist-power elitist.
4/3/2009
3/28/2009
‘We’re All Keynesians Now’
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french110.html
Nope, says Doug French.
3/16/2009
3/10/2009
3/2/2009
2/24/2009
The Porn Bailout
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french106.html
Porn makers want your money, and protection from competition through obscene IP too.
2/11/2009
The Case Against Adolescence
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french104.html
And why the state loves immaturity.
1/7/2009
1/6/2009
Banking Demystified
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french103.html
Doug French on the myth of deregulation.
12/23/2008
Taxpayers vs. the State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french102.html
In the Hoover-Roosevelt depression, and the Bush-Obama one too.
12/22/2008
Tulip Mania, Then and Now
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french101.html
Doug French on booms and busts.
12/16/2008
Hayek vs. Bernanke
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french100.html
Doug French on free-market money vs. government (i.e., necessarily ruined) money.
12/8/2008
Tulipmania
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french99.html
Doug French on econo-cultural breakdown.
11/29/2008
Should You Worry About Deflation?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french98.html
Of course not. It's the people's best friend, especially in a depression.
11/17/2008
Rothbard as Intellectual Inspiration
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french97.html
Doug French on his great teacher.
11/15/2008
I.O.U.S.A., Give Me a Refund
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french96.html
Doug French on Warren Buffettism.
11/14/2008
History Is Clear
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french95.html
More fiat money won't cure a problem caused by fiat money.
11/13/2008
Bear Market Funk
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french94.html
Doug French reports on the Hard Asset Conference.
9/22/2008
You Can’t Trust the FDIC
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french93.html
Doug French on bank failures.
8/25/2008
Fitness, Intellectual Property, and Toes
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french92.html
Doug French on Yoga, Inc.
8/19/2008
Another Great Depression?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french91.html
Or a Greater Depression?
7/9/2008
Votes of Idiots
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french90.html
Mencken was right on democracy, says Doug French.
7/8/2008
Gasoline Isn’t More Expensive
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french89.html
The government's money is cheaper, says Doug French.
7/7/2008
The Ultimate Card Playing Legend
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french88.html
Doug French on Stuey Ungar and the World Series of Poker.
6/2/2008
A Midlife Adventure
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french86.html
Doug French on Running to the Mountain, by Jon Katz.
4/29/2008
Something for Nothing
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french87.html
Courtesy of the Federal Reserve.
4/28/2008
What Women Want
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french85.html
Ho-hum heterosexual, or Mr. Metrosexual?
4/26/2008
4/7/2008
V.I. Bernanke
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french83.html
Count me out of the Fed revolution, says Doug French.
4/1/2008
Winner Used to Take All
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french82.html
Doug French on what's happened to Las Vegas.
3/24/2008
In Defense of Happiness
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french81.html
Let's be guided by Mencken and Rothbard instead of depressed statists, says Doug French.
3/19/2008
The Need for Novelty
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french80.html
Doug French on satisfaction.
3/6/2008
Civilized China vs. Barbaric America
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french79.html
Doug French on air travel.
3/5/2008
NASCAR and the Foreclosure Express
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french78.html
Doug French on Las Veganomics.
3/3/2008
2/26/2008
Your Money and Your Brain
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french76.html
Doug French on not going broke.
2/25/2008
Wake Me When the Real Estate Market Improves
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french75.html
Doug French on anesthesia and Las Vegas.
2/11/2008
2/4/2008
Organized Thugs in Las Vegas
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french73.html
Doug French on unions.
1/29/2008
Only Anarchists Are Really Conservative
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french72.html
Doug French on Look Homeward, America, by Bill Kauffman.
1/22/2008
An Anarchist at the Caucus
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french71.html
Doug French in Nevada.
1/21/2008
Want To Understand the Neocon Takeover?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french70.html
Read Murray Rothbard's Betrayal of the American Right, says Doug French.
1/8/2008
Booms, Busts, and Construction Cranes
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french69.html
Doug French on skyscrapers and the unfortunate economic future.
1/7/2008
A Bull in China
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french68.html
Doug French on Jim Rogers and the People's Republic of Capitalism.
1/2/2008
Connecting the Dots
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french67.html
Doug French on Lions for Lambs.
12/17/2007
Avoid the Crowd
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french66.html
Doug French on Messiahs, Mobs, and Markets, by Bill Bonner and Lila Rajiva.
12/15/2007
The Federal Fallacy of House Ownership
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french65.html
A house is a money pit, says Doug French, not an investment.
12/14/2007
11/9/2007
11/8/2007
The Evil of Fuzzy Math
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french62.html
Doug French on the deliberate dumbing-down of American schoolchildren.
11/6/2007
Boomburbs
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french60.html
Doug French on America's fastest growing cities.
10/20/2007
10/19/2007
The Criminal Fed
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french59.html
It's immoral, as Ron Paul says.
10/18/2007
When the Crash Comes
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french58.html
Doug French on a book that can help protect you.
8/4/2007
All the Buzz?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french57.html
While Americans cheer the jailing of Paris Hilton, they ignore talk of bombing Iran.
7/23/2007
The Unbloody Streets of Vegas
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french56.html
Doug French on real estate.
7/21/2007
John Wayne Was a Jeffersonian Liberal
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french55.html
Doug French on the Duke's 100th.
5/31/2007
Bubblicious
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french54.html
Doug French on Las Vegas real estate, the Fed, and the future.
3/12/2007
Damning the Disabled
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french53.html
Doug French on the minimum wage.
1/10/2007
Becoming a Rich Republican
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french52.html
Doug French on the secrets.
1/4/2007
The Sports Fetish
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french51.html
Doug French on "public" sports stadiums.
12/21/2006
Boom Madness
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french50.html
Doug French on a cautionary tale of Las Vegas real estate.
10/3/2006
9/11/2006
A Single Mother
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french48.html
And how she came to fight the unions.
8/24/2006
We Need Another Mencken
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french47.html
We also need to know about the great original.
8/15/2006
Heroes of Capitalism
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french46.html
Doug French on entrepreneurs and Mr. Libertarian.
8/12/2006
Planning vs. Affordable Housing
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french45.html
Doug French on some effects of government intervention.
7/15/2006
Hoppean Property and Freedom
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french44.html
Doug French on the first meeting in Bodrum, Turkey, of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's international libertarian society.
6/21/2006
Hoppe Talks Turkey
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french43.html
With other international libertarian scholars.
5/30/2006
No More Road Socialism
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french42.html
Let the market work, says Doug French.
5/18/2006
The G-String Tax
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french41.html
Doug French on government morality in Las Vegas.
5/1/2006
3/6/2006
High Rises and High Time Preferences
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french39.html
A report from within the Las Vegas bubble, by Doug French.
12/6/2005
Publicly Funded Sex
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french38.html
Doug French on the real nature of government.
12/2/2005
Sand Sharks
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french37.html
Maybe when real estate flippers attend gold conferences, says Doug French.
10/20/2005
Party of One
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french36.html
Doug French on John Adams, by James Grant.
9/13/2005
Empire of Debt
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french35.html
Doug French on the new Bonner-Wiggin guide to what we've become, and what to do about it.
9/7/2005
Condo-mania
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french34.html
A report from Doug French on apartment insanity in Vegas.
7/11/2005
6/27/2005
City of the Bubble
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french32.html
Doug French on Las Vegas – and America.
6/22/2005
Freakonomics
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french31.html
Doug French on the bestselling economics book, and why we should be glad it's a hit.
6/21/2005
Love Affair With Government
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french30.html
Are the people getting over it?
5/19/2005
Reminiscences of Murray
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french28.html
Doug French remembers his great teacher.
4/8/2005
Boom or Bust?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french27.html
Doug French on Dent vs. Turk, and Blumert.
2/22/2005
Hot Commodities
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french26.html
Doug French on How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market, by Jim Rogers.
1/18/2005
A Tale of the Resistance
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french25.html
Doug French on The Black Arrow by Vin Suprynowicz.
1/7/2005
Abuse of Power
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french24.html
Doug French on Steven Greenhut's expose of eminent domain.
11/10/2004
Is the Las Vegas Boom Over?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french23.html
Doug French on the housing market.
10/22/2004
The Star of the Show
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french22.html
Doug French on James Grant and gold.
9/15/2004
Public Pensions Are Ripping You Off
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french21.html
First the bureaucrats unofficially non-work for big salaries; then they officially non-work for big pensions.
9/8/2004
Strip Property
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french20.html
Doug French on government, unions, and the Las Vegas "adult" industry.
8/20/2004
7/29/2004
Greenspan’s Deadly Boom
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french18.html
Doug French on one small result in Hot Vegas.
6/7/2004
Our Financial Reckoning
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french17.html
Doug French on Bill Bonner.
6/2/2004
Junior College Follies
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french16.html
Doug French on hyper-PC government academics.
5/5/2004
Why High Gas Prices?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french15.html
Doug French on politicians.
4/2/2004
The Crime Against Hoppe
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french14.html
And other evils of higher indoctrination.
3/30/2004
The Three Stooges of Inflation
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french13.html
Doug French on Greenspan, Bernancke, and Poole.
3/3/2004
Requiem for an Entrepreneur
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french12.html
Doug French on what businessman Ronald Yanke did for his fellow man.
2/16/2004
Mama, Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Barbers
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french11.html
Doug French on the greatness of a small businessman.
1/12/2004
How Dare She
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french10.html
Doug French on a judge in trouble for defending property rights.
11/9/2003
Should Polygamy Be Legal?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french9.html
Doug French on what goes on in rural Utah.
11/8/2003
Abusing Old Hickory
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/french/french8.html
Doug French on real money and the new $20 bill.
10/28/2003
Of Rats and Men
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig2/french7.html
Douglas French on the mob and Vegas.
10/20/2003
Black-Robed Thieves
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig2/french6.html
Doug French on judges vs. private property.
9/22/2003
Free Speech Does Not Mean Trespass
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig2/french5.html
Doug French tries to explain to the rotten ACLU.
8/27/2003
A Novel for LRC
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig2/french4.html
Doug French on an economic romance.
7/22/2003
The Land-Price Bubble
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig2/french3.html
Doug French writes from ground zero.
6/10/2003
Adventure Capitalist
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig3/french2.html
Doug French on the amazing Jim Rogers.
6/2/2003
Learning From the Master
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig2/french2.html
Doug French on studying under Murray N. Rothbard.
12/24/2002
Looting in Las Vegas
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig3/french1.html
Doug French on the relative superiority of the common thief.
6/6/2002
The Venetian’s Sidewalk
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig2/french1.html
Doug French on private property and its enemy, the Supreme Court.
3/13/2002
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