Articles by Douglas French

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V.I. Bernanke

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

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4/1/2008

Winner Used to Take All

Doug French on what's happened to Las Vegas.

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3/24/2008

In Defense of Happiness

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

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3/19/2008

The Need for Novelty

Doug French on satisfaction.

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3/6/2008

Civilized China vs. Barbaric America

Doug French on air travel.

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3/5/2008

NASCAR and the Foreclosure Express

Doug French on Las Veganomics.

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3/3/2008

For Richer or Poorer

In Zimbabwe, or Amerabwe.

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2/26/2008

Your Money and Your Brain

Doug French on not going broke.

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2/25/2008

Wake Me When the Real Estate Market Improves

Doug French on anesthesia and Las Vegas.

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2/11/2008

Mad Money

Doug French on the Fed in a movie.

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2/4/2008

Organized Thugs in Las Vegas

Doug French on unions.

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1/29/2008

Only Anarchists Are Really Conservative

Doug French on Look Homeward, America, by Bill Kauffman.

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1/22/2008

An Anarchist at the Caucus

Doug French in Nevada.

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1/21/2008

Want To Understand the Neocon Takeover?

Read Murray Rothbard's Betrayal of the American Right, says Doug French.

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1/8/2008

Booms, Busts, and Construction Cranes

Doug French on skyscrapers and the unfortunate economic future.

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1/7/2008

A Bull in China

Doug French on Jim Rogers and the People's Republic of Capitalism.

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1/2/2008

Connecting the Dots

Doug French on Lions for Lambs.

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12/17/2007

Avoid the Crowd

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

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12/15/2007

The Federal Fallacy of House Ownership

A house is a money pit, says Doug French, not an investment.

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12/14/2007

Status Anxiety

Doug French on who's prey to it.

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11/9/2007

Water Is Gold

In the West.

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11/8/2007

The Evil of Fuzzy Math

Doug French on the deliberate dumbing-down of American schoolchildren.

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11/6/2007

Boomburbs

Doug French on America's fastest growing cities.

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10/20/2007

Long Way to Go

Doug French on gold and uranium.

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10/19/2007

The Criminal Fed

It's immoral, as Ron Paul says.

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10/18/2007

When the Crash Comes

Doug French on a book that can help protect you.

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8/4/2007

All the Buzz?

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

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7/23/2007

The Unbloody Streets of Vegas

Doug French on real estate.

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7/21/2007

John Wayne Was a Jeffersonian Liberal

Doug French on the Duke's 100th.

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5/31/2007

Bubblicious

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

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3/12/2007

Damning the Disabled

Doug French on the minimum wage.

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1/10/2007

Becoming a Rich Republican

Doug French on the secrets.

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1/4/2007

The Sports Fetish

Doug French on "public" sports stadiums.

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12/21/2006

Boom Madness

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

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10/3/2006

Geezer Investing

Is that the fate of gold?

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9/11/2006

A Single Mother

And how she came to fight the unions.

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8/24/2006

We Need Another Mencken

We also need to know about the great original.

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8/15/2006

Heroes of Capitalism

Doug French on entrepreneurs and Mr. Libertarian.

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8/12/2006

Planning vs. Affordable Housing

Doug French on some effects of government intervention.

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7/15/2006

Hoppean Property and Freedom

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

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6/21/2006

Hoppe Talks Turkey

With other international libertarian scholars.

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5/30/2006

No More Road Socialism

Let the market work, says Doug French.

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5/18/2006

The G-String Tax

Doug French on government morality in Las Vegas.

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5/1/2006

Risky Vegas

Real estate, that is.

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3/6/2006

High Rises and High Time Preferences

A report from within the Las Vegas bubble, by Doug French.

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12/6/2005

Publicly Funded Sex

Doug French on the real nature of government.

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12/2/2005

Sand Sharks

Maybe when real estate flippers attend gold conferences, says Doug French.

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10/20/2005

Party of One

Doug French on John Adams, by James Grant.

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9/13/2005

Empire of Debt

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

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9/7/2005

Condo-mania

A report from Doug French on apartment insanity in Vegas.

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7/11/2005