Doug French: Archives

Past articles by Doug French on LewRockwell.com

This Crumbling, Bankrupt Empire
How not to be underneath when it collapses.

Why MF Global Went Down
Doug French on their fractional reserves.

Who Helps the People During Disasters?
Waffle House, not the armed bureaucrats, says Doug French.

The Greatness of Waffle House
Doug French on delicious, cheap, capitalist food.

The Higher-Ed Bubble
It's popped, says Doug French.

Bernanke Wears Prada
Doug French on easy money and the luxo-boom.

Eat the Savers?
That's the society-destroying, Marxo-Keynesian motto of the Fed.

Is It Really Higher-Ed?
Doug French on an ivied scam.

Gold Prices
And panic.

Mail Your House Keys to the Banksters
And wave goodbye. It's the moral and practical thing to do, says Doug French.

Love Horse Racing as Burt Blumert Did?
Then go see Secretariat, says Doug French.

The Scum of the Earth
Doug French on those who seek power.

Your Common Sense and Austrian Economics vs. Bernanke and Keynes
Doug French on why falling prices are good for you and the economy.

Sinking?
Doug French on the cruise business, post-meltdown.

Free Market Thinking Is on the March
Doug French on Mises and the Austrian School.

Gold and Guns
Doug French on what the smarter sort are doing.

The Dollar Meltdown
Doug French on the new classic by Charles Goyette.

A Young Champion of Liberty
Doug French on the passing of Mike Ziegler.

Gangs of DC
Doug French on the violent, unemployment-producing, government-privileged, Obama-loving mobs called unions.

Bubblenomics
Doug French on the illusion of wealth.

You Can't Print Prosperity
Doug French on the runaway Fed.

Enemies of Mankind
Doug French on Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Fed's first Great Depression.

The Football Condo Boom
And bust.

Bankruptcies Are Good News
They're the clean-up from the Fed's destructive boom.

Dead Banks Walking
Doug French on the Fed's favorite zombies.

Strip Club Depression
Doug French on yet another boom business gone bust.

A Mustard Seed at the Kentucky Derby
Doug French on a non-CNBC, non-Bernanke green shoot.

Is Obama a Money Crank?
Doug French on the link to John Law, the craziest of them all.

The Real Estate Bust
It's far from over, says Doug French.

It Didn't Begin With Greenspan
Doug French on bubble history.

The Trouble With Warren Buffett
Doug French on the inflationist-statist-power elitist.

Blessed by Government
The lies are sacred.

'We're All Keynesians Now'
Nope, says Doug French.

Doomsday
A novel, our future, or both?

Outlaw Thoughts
From Mencken.

The Wickedly Funny Burt Blumert
And his book.

The Porn Bailout
Porn makers want your money, and protection from competition through obscene IP too.

Bank Troubles Galore
Podcast with Doug French.

The Case Against Adolescence
And why the state loves immaturity.

Breath of Fresh Air
Doug French on Fred Reed.

Banking Demystified
Doug French on the myth of deregulation.

Taxpayers vs. the State
In the Hoover-Roosevelt depression, and the Bush-Obama one too.

Tulip Mania, Then and Now
Doug French on booms and busts.

Hayek vs. Bernanke
Doug French on free-market money vs. government (i.e., necessarily ruined) money.

Tulipmania
Doug French on econo-cultural breakdown.

Should You Worry About Deflation?
Of course not. It's the people's best friend, especially in a depression.

Rothbard as Intellectual Inspiration
Doug French on his great teacher.

I.O.U.S.A., Give Me a Refund
Doug French on Warren Buffettism.

History Is Clear
More fiat money won't cure a problem caused by fiat money.

Lessons from Tulip Mania
Doug French podcast on the history of boom-and-bust cycles.

The Trouble With Fractional-Reserve Banking
Doug French podcast on why it's so vulnerable to collapse.

Bear Market Funk
Doug French reports on the Hard Asset Conference.

You Can't Trust the FDIC
Doug French on bank failures.

Fitness, Intellectual Property, and Toes
Doug French on Yoga, Inc.

Another Great Depression?
Or a Greater Depression?

Votes of Idiots
Mencken was right on democracy, says Doug French.

Gasoline Isn't More Expensive
The government's money is cheaper, says Doug French.

The Ultimate Card Playing Legend
Doug French on Stuey Ungar and the World Series of Poker.

A Midlife Adventure
Doug French on Running to the Mountain, by Jon Katz.

Something for Nothing
Courtesy of the Federal Reserve.

What Women Want
Ho-hum heterosexual, or Mr. Metrosexual?

Boom, Bust, Dust
Doug French on hard times.

V.I. Bernanke
Count me out of the Fed revolution, says Doug French.

Winner Used to Take All
Doug French on what's happened to Las Vegas.

In Defense of Happiness
Let's be guided by Mencken and Rothbard instead of depressed statists, says Doug French.

The Need for Novelty
Doug French on satisfaction.

Civilized China vs. Barbaric America
Doug French on air travel.

NASCAR and the Foreclosure Express
Doug French on Las Veganomics.

For Richer or Poorer
In Zimbabwe, or Amerabwe.

Your Money and Your Brain
Doug French on not going broke.

This Is Your Brain on Fiat Money
Doug French on neuroscience and financial markets.

Wake Me When the Real Estate Market Improves
Doug French on anesthesia and Las Vegas.

Mad Money
Doug French on the Fed in a movie.

Organized Thugs in Las Vegas
Doug French on unions.

Only Anarchists Are Really Conservative
Doug French on Look Homeward, America, by Bill Kauffman.

An Anarchist at the Caucus
Doug French in Nevada.

Want To Understand the Neocon Takeover?
Read Murray Rothbard's Betrayal of the American Right, says Doug French.

Booms, Busts, and Construction Cranes
Doug French on skyscrapers and the unfortunate economic future.

A Bull in China
Doug French on Jim Rogers and the People's Republic of Capitalism.

Connecting the Dots
Doug French on Lions for Lambs.

Avoid the Crowd
Doug French on Messiahs, Mobs, and Markets, by Bill Bonner and Lila Rajiva.

The Federal Fallacy of House Ownership
A house is a money pit, says Doug French, not an investment.

Status Anxiety
Doug French on who's prey to it.

Water Is Gold
In the West.

The Evil of Fuzzy Math
Doug French on the deliberate dumbing-down of American schoolchildren.

Boomburbs
Doug French on America's fastest growing cities.

Long Way to Go
Doug French on gold and uranium.

The Criminal Fed
It's immoral, as Ron Paul says.

The Magic of Self-Reliance
Doug French on the Harry Potter books raising a new generation to distrust the government.

When the Crash Comes
Doug French on a book that can help protect you.

All the Buzz?
While Americans cheer the jailing of Paris Hilton, they ignore talk of bombing Iran.

The Unbloody Streets of Vegas
Doug French on real estate.

John Wayne Was a Jeffersonian Liberal
Doug French on the Duke's 100th.

Understanding Bubbles
Doug French on the truth about tulipmania.

Bubblicious
Doug French on Las Vegas real estate, the Fed, and the future.

Damning the Disabled
Doug French on the minimum wage.

Becoming a Rich Republican
Doug French on the secrets.

The Sports Fetish
Doug French on "public" sports stadiums.

Boom Madness
Doug French on a cautionary tale of Las Vegas real estate.

Geezer Investing
Is that the fate of gold?

A Single Mother
And how she came to fight the unions.

We Need Another Mencken
We also need to know about the great original.

Heroes of Capitalism
Doug French on entrepreneurs and Mr. Libertarian.

Planning vs. Affordable Housing
Doug French on some effects of government intervention.

Hoppean Property and Freedom
Doug French on the first meeting in Bodrum, Turkey, of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's international libertarian society.

Hoppe Talks Turkey
With other international libertarian scholars.

No More Road Socialism
Let the market work, says Doug French.

The G-String Tax
Doug French on government morality in Las Vegas.

The US Dollar and Ricky Nelson's Career
Doug French on the unfortunate parallels.

Risky Vegas
Real estate, that is.

High Rises and High Time Preferences
A report from within the Las Vegas bubble, by Doug French.

Publicly Funded Sex
Doug French on the real nature of government.

Sand Sharks
Doug French on the real story of Las Vegas.

Party of One
Doug French on John Adams, by James Grant.

When To Sell Gold Stocks
Maybe when real estate flippers attend gold conferences, says Doug French.

Empire of Debt
Doug French on the new Bonner-Wiggin guide to what we've become, and what to do about it.

Condo-mania
A report from Doug French on apartment insanity in Vegas.

City of the Bubble
Doug French on Las Vegas – and America.

Freakonomics
Doug French on the bestselling economics book, and why we should be glad it's a hit.

Love Affair With Government
Are the people getting over it?

Reminiscences of Murray
Doug French remembers his great teacher.

Boom or Bust?
Doug French on Dent vs. Turk, and Blumert.

Hot Commodities
Doug French on How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market, by Jim Rogers.

A Tale of the Resistance
Doug French on The Black Arrow by Vin Suprynowicz.

Abuse of Power
Doug French on Steven Greenhut's expose of eminent domain.

Is the Las Vegas Boom Over?
Doug French on the housing market.

The Star of the Show
Doug French on James Grant and gold.

Public Pensions Are Ripping You Off
First the bureaucrats unofficially non-work for big salaries; then they officially non-work for big pensions.

Strip Property
Doug French on government, unions, and the Las Vegas "adult" industry.

Decivilization
And what to do about it.

Greenspan's Deadly Boom
Doug French on one small result in Hot Vegas.

Our Financial Reckoning
Doug French on Bill Bonner.

Junior College Follies
Doug French on hyper-PC government academics.

Why High Gas Prices?
Doug French on politicians.

The Crime Against Hoppe
And other evils of higher indoctrination.

The Three Stooges of Inflation
Doug French on Greenspan, Bernancke, and Poole.

Requiem for an Entrepreneur
Doug French on what businessman Ronald Yanke did for his fellow man.

Mama, Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Barbers
Doug French on the greatness of a small businessman.

How Dare She
Doug French on a judge in trouble for defending property rights.

Should Polygamy Be Legal?
Doug French on what goes on in rural Utah.

Abusing Old Hickory
Doug French on real money and the new $20 bill.

Of Rats and Men
Douglas French on the mob and Vegas.

Black-Robed Thieves
Doug French on judges vs. private property.

Free Speech Does Not Mean Trespass
Doug French tries to explain to the rotten ACLU.

A Novel for LRC
Doug French on an economic romance.

The Land-Price Bubble
Doug French writes from ground zero.

Adventure Capitalist
Doug French on the amazing Jim Rogers.

Learning From the Master
Doug French on studying under Murray N. Rothbard.

Looting in Las Vegas
Doug French on the relative superiority of the common thief.

The Venetian's Sidewalk
Doug French on private property and its enemy, the Supreme Court.