Articles by Douglas French

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Hubris Runs Rampant at the Fed

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2/26/2024

Bank CEOs Have Their Heads in the Clouds

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9/25/2023

Can Fractional Reserve Banking Survive the Twenty-First Century?

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7/25/2023

After the Debt Ceiling Deal: Look for Liquidity Problems in the Markets

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6/22/2023

The Bankruptcy Caravan Is Now Arriving: Time To Pay for the Easy Money

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5/31/2023

Peak EV: Electric Vehicles Will Fade as Their True Costs Become Clear

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4/14/2023

Can We See the End of the World from Here? Will We Still Feel Fine?

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8/17/2022

Clarence Darrow vs. the State

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4/1/2022

Rising Rents and Cheap Money Flowing—So Apartment Prices Are Soaring

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2/2/2022

The Municipal Convention Center Racket Is Alive and Well

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1/20/2022

Will Artificial Intelligence Create a Socialist Paradise?

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1/5/2022

Housing Hubris: Can Home Prices Spiral Upward Forever?

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12/7/2021

Thanks to Bailouts, Wall Street Banks Are More Fragile than Ever

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11/10/2021

Preserving Capital through Bankruptcy

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9/2/2021

The Real Estate Boom in Vegas Is More Frenzied Than Ever

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5/18/2021

The Dollar’s Reserve Currency Status Won’t Last Forever

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2/3/2021

Today’s Negative Rates Are the Path to Poverty

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12/26/2020

Rich Millennials Plot the End of Civilization

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12/24/2020

Builders in Denial

Douglas French on Las Vegas.

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4/6/2020

Just Raid the Taxpayers, Baby!

Article by Douglas French.

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2/29/2020

Private Sector Truck Drivers Are Nepal’s Lifeline to Clean Water

Article by Douglas French.

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2/10/2020

Shhhh: Repo Operation in Process

Article by Douglas French.

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2/7/2020

Are Housing Markets Still Clearing Out the Trash of the Last Bust?

Article by Douglas French.

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1/22/2020

Insider Trading Laws

Ruining lives and markets, says Doug French.

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1/13/2018

Mining Newsletter Writer

Doug French on Mark Twain.

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12/5/2017

Burt Blumert on Bitcoin

Maybe, says Doug French.

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11/4/2017

The Airbnb Next Door

Doug French on lack of private governance.

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7/28/2017

Bank Failures

Hither and yon, says Doug French.

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6/9/2017

The Biggest Little Housing Boom in the World

This time, Reno’s worse than Las Vegas. Article by Doug French.

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5/25/2017

Bubble on Wheels

Doug French on the car crash.

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5/4/2017

Squattertown

Doug French on Las Vegas real estate.

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4/15/2017

Great Movie About a Dangerous Business

Doug French on “Deepwater Horizon.”

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4/5/2017

Fannie and Freddie’s New Bubble

Worse than the last? Much worse? Article by Doug French.

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3/27/2017

The Stench Inside The Fed

Doug French on Fed Up.

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2/28/2017

The Las Vegas Real Estate Bubble

It’s back, says Doug French.

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2/25/2017

An Actual Movie About an Entrepreneur

Doug French on The Founder.

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2/20/2017

Gold!

Douglas French on the movie.

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2/1/2017

Politically Incorrect Adventure

Douglas French on Doug Casey’s Speculator.

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12/29/2016

Trump vs. the Culinary Union

Douglas French on taming gov’t privileged anti-business orgs.

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12/20/2016

US Fish and Wildlife Looters Wreck a Church

Doug French on the fight against federal greenies.

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11/24/2016

The Good Old Days in Las Vegas

When the Boys ran things. Article by Doug French.

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11/10/2016

Was Nevada Once Slightly Libertarian?

Now it openly rips off the people for the oligarchs. Article by Douglas French.

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9/26/2016

The Disastrous Consequences of Equality

Douglas E. French on a must-read anti-PC manifesto.

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8/4/2016

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