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Crazy Kelo

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6/27/2005

City of the Bubble

Doug French on Las Vegas – and America.

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6/22/2005

Freakonomics

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

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6/21/2005

Love Affair With Government

Are the people getting over it?

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5/19/2005

Reminiscences of Murray

Doug French remembers his great teacher.

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4/8/2005

Boom or Bust?

Doug French on Dent vs. Turk, and Blumert.

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2/22/2005

Hot Commodities

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

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1/18/2005

A Tale of the Resistance

Doug French on The Black Arrow by Vin Suprynowicz.

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1/7/2005

Abuse of Power

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

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11/10/2004

Is the Las Vegas Boom Over?

Doug French on the housing market.

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10/22/2004

The Star of the Show

Doug French on James Grant and gold.

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9/15/2004

Public Pensions Are Ripping You Off

First the bureaucrats unofficially non-work for big salaries; then they officially non-work for big pensions.

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9/8/2004

Strip Property

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

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8/20/2004

Decivilization

And what to do about it.

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7/29/2004

Greenspan’s Deadly Boom

Doug French on one small result in Hot Vegas.

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6/7/2004

Our Financial Reckoning

Doug French on Bill Bonner.

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6/2/2004

Junior College Follies

Doug French on hyper-PC government academics.

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5/5/2004

Why High Gas Prices?

Doug French on politicians.

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4/2/2004

The Crime Against Hoppe

And other evils of higher indoctrination.

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3/30/2004

The Three Stooges of Inflation

Doug French on Greenspan, Bernancke, and Poole.

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3/3/2004

Requiem for an Entrepreneur

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

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2/16/2004

Mama, Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Barbers

Doug French on the greatness of a small businessman.

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1/12/2004

How Dare She

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

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11/9/2003

Should Polygamy Be Legal?

Doug French on what goes on in rural Utah.

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11/8/2003

Abusing Old Hickory

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

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10/28/2003

Of Rats and Men

Douglas French on the mob and Vegas.

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10/20/2003

Black-Robed Thieves

Doug French on judges vs. private property.

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9/22/2003

Free Speech Does Not Mean Trespass

Doug French tries to explain to the rotten ACLU.

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8/27/2003

A Novel for LRC

Doug French on an economic romance.

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7/22/2003

The Land-Price Bubble

Doug French writes from ground zero.

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6/10/2003

Adventure Capitalist

Doug French on the amazing Jim Rogers.

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6/2/2003

Learning From the Master

Doug French on studying under Murray N. Rothbard.

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12/24/2002

Looting in Las Vegas

Doug French on the relative superiority of the common thief.

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6/6/2002

The Venetian’s Sidewalk

Doug French on private property and its enemy, the Supreme Court.

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3/13/2002