Articles by Douglas French

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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

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