Articles by Douglas French

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Insider Trading

It’s what free-market capitalism is all about, says Douglas French.

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6/9/2016

Missing Burt and Murray

Douglas French on his cancer.

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3/30/2016

Responsible Investing in an Irresponsible World

Based on Austrian economic insights. Article by Douglas French.

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3/9/2016

Taking Down the Drug War

Douglas French on a libertarian fantasy.

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1/18/2016

Entrepreneurship vs. Wall Street and Washington

Douglas French on “The Big Short.”

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1/13/2016

A Huge Real-Estate Bubble Again

Doug French from ground zero in Las Vegas.

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7/21/2015

Las Vegas Gambling Pioneer

An enemy of the state. Article by Doug French.

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11/12/2014

Time for You To Die

Doug French on the regime’s plans for old people.

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9/27/2014

No Matter Who Wins

A sociopath is elected. Article by Doug French.

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8/7/2014

Judge Napolitano Rocks Mises U.

Doug French on legal stardom.

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8/2/2014

This Crumbling, Bankrupt Empire

How not to be underneath when it collapses. Article by Doug French.

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3/29/2012

Why MF Global Went Down

Doug French on their fractional reserves.

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12/15/2011

Who Helps the People During Disasters?

Waffle House, not the armed bureaucrats, says Doug French.

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9/8/2011

The Greatness of Waffle House

Doug French on delicious, cheap, capitalist food.

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8/22/2011

The Higher-Ed Bubble

It's popped, says Doug French.

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8/13/2011

Bernanke Wears Prada

Doug French on easy money and the luxo-boom.

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6/29/2011

Eat the Savers?

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

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4/14/2011

Is It Really Higher-Ed?

Doug French on an ivied scam.

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2/10/2011

Gold Prices

And panic.

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12/16/2010

Mail Your House Keys to the Banksters

And wave goodbye. It's the moral and practical thing to do, says Doug French.

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12/2/2010

Love Horse Racing as Burt Blumert Did?

Then go see Secretariat, says Doug French.

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10/19/2010

The Scum of the Earth

Doug French on those who seek power.

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10/5/2010

Your Common Sense and Austrian Economics vs. Bernanke and Keynes

Doug French on why falling prices are good for you and the economy.

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8/12/2010

Sinking?

Doug French on the cruise business, post-meltdown.

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6/9/2010

Free Market Thinking Is on the March

Doug French on Mises and the Austrian School.

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5/18/2010

Gold and Guns

Doug French on what the smarter sort are doing.

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1/4/2010

The Dollar Meltdown

Doug French on the new classic by Charles Goyette.

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11/2/2009

A Young Champion of Liberty

Doug French on the passing of Mike Ziegler.

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10/20/2009

The Zero Discount Value of Gold and Dethroning the Dollar

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10/20/2009

Gangs of DC

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

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9/24/2009

Bubblenomics

Doug French on the illusion of wealth.

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8/21/2009

You Can’t Print Prosperity

Doug French on the runaway Fed.

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7/27/2009

Enemies of Mankind

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

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7/15/2009

The Football Condo Boom

And bust.

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7/3/2009

Bankruptcies Are Good News

They're the clean-up from the Fed's destructive boom.

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6/24/2009

Dead Banks Walking

Doug French on the Fed's favorite zombies.

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6/16/2009

Strip Club Depression

Doug French on yet another boom business gone bust.

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6/15/2009

A Mustard Seed at the Kentucky Derby

Doug French on a non-CNBC, non-Bernanke green shoot.

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5/11/2009

Is Obama a Money Crank?

Doug French on the link to John Law, the craziest of them all.

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4/30/2009

The Real Estate Bust

It's far from over, says Doug French.

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4/9/2009

It Didn’t Begin With Greenspan

Doug French on bubble history.

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4/7/2009

The Trouble With Warren Buffett

Doug French on the inflationist-statist-power elitist.

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4/3/2009

Blessed by Government

The lies are sacred.

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3/28/2009

‘We’re All Keynesians Now’

Nope, says Doug French.

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3/16/2009

Doomsday

A novel, our future, or both?

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3/10/2009

Outlaw Thoughts

From Mencken.

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3/2/2009

The Wickedly Funny Burt Blumert

And his book.

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2/24/2009

The Porn Bailout

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

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2/11/2009

The Case Against Adolescence

And why the state loves immaturity.

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1/7/2009

Breath of Fresh Air

Doug French on Fred Reed.

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1/6/2009