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Based in Las Vegas, Douglas french writes about the economy and book reviews.
Archive
Academic Articles
6
Feb 10, 2017
Extraordinary Cuddly Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Feb 10, 2017
Irrational Central Banking: Bubbles, Bunds and Beanie Babies
Feb 9, 2017
The Fed: Bully With No Stick
Feb 9, 2017
Review: The Death of Money
Feb 9, 2017
Review: Boom and Bust Banking
Feb 7, 2017
The More Things Change ... (Perpetual Maladjustment)
Book Review
68
Dec 28, 2023
Coach Fino Denounces Denver Public Schools
Nov 2, 2023
From Going Infinite to Going Away
Oct 24, 2023
Number Go Up
Aug 17, 2023
Actor Turned Author Claims Crypto Mess is Capitalism's Fault
Jul 27, 2023
Profiting on Chaos
Jun 3, 2023
Bobbie Gentry's escape to Galt's Gulch
Nov 15, 2022
The Confidence Man Runs Again
Oct 9, 2022
Trump and The Age of Ignorance
Aug 16, 2022
Political Strategists On the Road
Mar 19, 2022
Clarence Darrow vs. The State
Jan 17, 2022
George Hearst: Entrepreneur in the Mises Mold
Oct 24, 2021
With Government Common Sense Not Required
Aug 10, 2021
Fantasy's End
Apr 16, 2021
Movements Becoming Rackets
Mar 22, 2021
Is God a Capitalist?
Feb 21, 2021
Our Path to Nomadland
Oct 17, 2020
The Price of Tomorrow
Sep 26, 2020
The Cheshire Cat in Crazytown
Sep 8, 2020
The Collapse of 2020
Aug 7, 2020
Under Water
Jul 29, 2020
Poker: Punishing Delusion
Mar 14, 2020
Genius: Mises v. Trump
Sep 19, 2019
More Financial Doom on the Way
Sep 2, 2019
The Creator of the Trump Presidency.
Aug 6, 2019
White Collar Welfare
Jul 12, 2019
"Regulating" Boom and Bust
Jul 9, 2019
Bookmaker With the Mind of Mencken
Jun 16, 2019
A Fighting Chance with Jr. Mining Shares
May 21, 2019
Navigating Booms and Busts
May 5, 2019
The Battle for Sound Money
Apr 14, 2019
THE GAME OF BANK BARGAINS
Jan 19, 2019
The Value of Work
Dec 31, 2018
Trump's Gut Feeling
Dec 28, 2018
The Old Fashioned Fed Chair
Nov 14, 2018
Dicey Bloated Government
Nov 3, 2018
The NFL: Land of the Caligulas
Oct 11, 2018
Tall Buildings, Mighty Crashes
Oct 7, 2018
Kirk Kerkorian: Misesian Entrepreneur
Sep 30, 2018
An Anointed Son, A Reporter Scorned
Aug 11, 2018
Education: Expensive Signaling
Aug 10, 2018
Counterfeiting, Not Capitalism Squeezes
Jun 15, 2018
Socialist Chic
May 28, 2018
The Kingdom of Tom Wolfe
May 12, 2018
Think and Decide Like a Poker Player
Mar 17, 2018
America's Fantasy
Dec 23, 2017
Thank the Fed for Workamping
Oct 28, 2017
The Libor Scapegoat
Sep 28, 2017
Politically Incorrect Architecture
Sep 6, 2017
Business Rebel Plays the Austrian Business Cycle (and wins)
Aug 25, 2017
The Boy Plunger: Triumph and Tragedy
Jul 30, 2017
Ravens Discovered to have Low Time Preferences
Jun 24, 2017
America's Troubles: The Boomers or Democracy?
May 19, 2017
The Cake, the Rain, and Positive Mood
Feb 10, 2017
Extraordinary Cuddly Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Feb 9, 2017
Review: The Death of Money
Feb 9, 2017
Review: Boom and Bust Banking
Feb 7, 2017
Greenspan: The Undertaker and His Countless Victims
Jan 23, 2017
Raw Capitalism in the Restaurant World
Jan 23, 2017
The Secret Life of Metaphor
Jan 23, 2017
Boombustology
Jan 23, 2017
The Rise and Current Decline of the City
Jan 23, 2017
The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America
Jan 23, 2017
Clarence Darrow Puts the State on Trial
Jan 23, 2017
Debtor Nation
Jan 23, 2017
Currency Wars
Jan 23, 2017
Street Freak
Jan 23, 2017
Freakonomics
Jan 23, 2017
Management: Enemy of Enterprise
Economics
317
Nov 16, 2024
Good and Hard
Nov 3, 2024
Promises, Promises
Oct 31, 2024
Consumers Upbeat, Bankruptcies and Foreclosures Increase
Oct 13, 2024
Chinese Authorities to Stop Economic Cleansing
Oct 11, 2024
Eggs and Nest Eggs
Sep 21, 2024
Guns & Butter is Back
Aug 9, 2024
Section 2.10: Remonetizing the Treasury’s Gold
Jul 24, 2024
Wall Street's latest Poison: Leveraged ETFs
Jul 21, 2024
Fed In Full Control: What Could Go Wrong?
Jul 17, 2024
Repos: The Magic is Back
Jul 5, 2024
Maturing Loans, Old Appraisers
Jun 17, 2024
This Week’s Mania: Reservations!
Jun 11, 2024
Price Discovery Equals Short Sales
Jun 4, 2024
Dead Banks Walking Part 1
May 26, 2024
Why the Democrats are Throwing the Presidential Election
May 14, 2024
Roaring Kitty vs. Chairman Powell
May 8, 2024
Nuclear Option Has Foreign Central Banks Dodging the Dollar & Going for Gold
May 4, 2024
Jared Bernstein Knows One Thing: "We Can Print Our Own Money"
Apr 20, 2024
Orwell's America
Apr 14, 2024
Millennials: In Costco We Trust
Apr 4, 2024
The CRE Bust is a Slow-Moving Train
Mar 30, 2024
Bitcoin vs. Gold: The Debate Continues
Mar 24, 2024
Pandemic Whiskey Boom Turns to Hangover
Mar 22, 2024
Boyd's Bounty Brings Boom-time Bucks
Feb 28, 2024
Bailing Out For A Buck
Feb 19, 2024
Little Pink Houses
Feb 14, 2024
Secretary Yellen's Dream Date
Feb 13, 2024
Maturities Pile Up
Feb 4, 2024
Swiftian Economics Super Bowl
Dec 26, 2023
Bank Term Lending Program: Not Likely To Go Away Ever
Dec 10, 2023
Will Parlay Betting Crash the Housing Market?
Nov 8, 2023
Short Memories in Crypto
Nov 4, 2023
Banking Stress, What Banking Stress?
Oct 28, 2023
GDP Up, So Are Bankruptcy Filings
Oct 27, 2023
The ESG Hustle
Oct 7, 2023
Arsonist Fireman Perfect for Job at Fed
Sep 11, 2023
Janet Yellen Needs to Brush Up on Her ABCT
Aug 1, 2023
Taxpayers Wonder Where the Yellow Went
Jul 29, 2023
Bank Failure in the Heartland
Jul 19, 2023
Medicare in a Pickle, But Pickleball Will Not Put it Under
Jul 18, 2023
Powerball Play Down: Players Too Bored or Too Broke
Jul 8, 2023
Hotelier Checking Out
Jul 1, 2023
Ahoy! Loans Overboard!
Jun 24, 2023
Can Fractionalized Banking Survive 21st Century Technology?
Jun 19, 2023
Some Bank Depositors Get the Smoke, others the Mirrors.
May 27, 2023
Real Estate Still Lurks
May 27, 2023
The Fed fights COVID Largesse
May 22, 2023
Entreprenuership Breaks Out at Taylor Swift Concert
May 11, 2023
Bank Buyers Wait For FDIC Subsidy
May 8, 2023
Privatize Gains, Socialize Losses
May 7, 2023
The Agony Out There
Apr 30, 2023
First Republic Count Down
Apr 10, 2023
Peak Environmentalism
Mar 11, 2023
How Does a Bank Collapse in 48 Hours?
Feb 19, 2023
Retail Investors Positioned For Thrashing
Feb 14, 2023
L.A. Walk Away
Feb 11, 2023
White Collar Canary
Feb 9, 2023
Increased Interest Rates Erode Bank Capital
Oct 19, 2022
"Poison Ivy" Zelman's says "Stuck Factor" has Housing Market Stuck
May 10, 2022
The Fed's Thumb Prints
May 1, 2022
Too Good to be True, Too Good to Resist
Apr 24, 2022
The NFL Draft: Grappling with Uncertainty
Feb 12, 2022
Erdoğan opens the FDR/John Law monetary playbook
Jan 5, 2022
When Higher Prices are Not Inflation
Dec 28, 2021
Will Artificial Intelligence Create a Socialist Paradise?
Dec 4, 2021
Speculation, on Earth and the Metaverse
Dec 2, 2021
The Public Drowns in Dollars, while Bitcoin is the Monetary Lifeboat
Nov 14, 2021
Housing Hubris
Nov 5, 2021
Biden is Not at Fault for Higher Gas Prices...Yet
Sep 28, 2021
The Fed and Opioids
Sep 18, 2021
The Gray Lady Vs. Bitcoin
Sep 16, 2021
The Nightmare of Bureaucracy
Aug 19, 2021
Preserving Capital through Bankruptcy
Aug 14, 2021
Overcoming the Endowment Effect
Aug 9, 2021
The End of the Sound Economy
Jul 24, 2021
It's not Charmin's Fault, It's the Fed's
Jul 18, 2021
Insurance Companies will Solve Climate Change
Jul 13, 2021
Catalytic Theft
Jun 27, 2021
Homebuyers Fear the Crash
Jun 18, 2021
Musical Chairs Markets
Jun 16, 2021
Mortgage Companies Cash in on Pandemic Relief
Jun 12, 2021
Bricks and Bitcoin
Jun 5, 2021
Transitory or Stagflation
May 31, 2021
Plumbing Problems
May 25, 2021
Price Discovery is Alive and Well in Crypto
May 16, 2021
Sunday Monetary Moves: Currencies vs. Climate
May 11, 2021
Skinny Jeans vs. Monetary Bloat
May 7, 2021
The Electric Kool-Aid Currency Test
Apr 28, 2021
The Fed Goes Gono
Apr 15, 2021
Monetary Frauds
Mar 24, 2021
DeJoy Plans to Save USPS by Making it Worse
Mar 19, 2021
The Fed Walks a Tightrope
Mar 12, 2021
Upside Down Pension Math
Mar 8, 2021
Bitcoin: Zero to Infinity
Feb 25, 2021
Booms Don't Repeat, but do Rhyme
Feb 23, 2021
Commercial Real Estate: Too much Debt, Not Enough Assets
Feb 18, 2021
Stagflation Cometh
Feb 8, 2021
Silver Squeeze: Is That All There Is?
Jan 26, 2021
Infinite Confidence
Jan 13, 2021
Fed Fiddles While Dollar Burns
Las Vegas Market
64
Jul 25, 2024
Brown to Snub Miners to Hang with Crypto Bros.
Feb 27, 2024
Elon's Boring Line of Bull
Nov 20, 2023
WTF1
Oct 9, 2023
Law and Order, Low Taxes Attract Wealth to Las Vegas
Aug 17, 2022
Housing: Is it a Correction or Worse?
Jan 13, 2022
Rising Rents & Cheap Money Flowing, Apartment Prices are Soaring
Jan 12, 2022
Elon and NFL play LVCVA for a Sucker
Jul 15, 2021
Allegiant Stadium Known Unknowns
Jul 9, 2021
Can't Find True Distress
May 4, 2021
Lot 13
Apr 29, 2021
Fed on Tilt, Vegas Roars Back
Mar 11, 2021
Does Las Vegas have Too Much?
Jul 25, 2020
Vegas Home Sales Defy Strip's Collapse.
Jun 17, 2020
Masking Las Vegas
Apr 8, 2020
More Taxpayer Money for the Bailout Bowl
Jan 3, 2020
Housing Rollover
Apr 25, 2019
The Hidden Housing Crisis
Feb 26, 2019
Las Vegas Apartments: Gambling on the Future, Using Today's Numbers
Jan 24, 2019
CTE, the New Asbestos
Jan 23, 2019
Freddie Mac Economist: Housing Dip is a 'Mental Recession'
Jan 14, 2019
Housing Affordability Down, Inventory Up
Dec 27, 2018
Can Raiders Arrive Fast Enough to Save Housing Market?
Dec 14, 2018
Low CAPs, Clear Crystal Balls
Dec 12, 2018
California Housing Funk Crosses Boarder to Nevada
Nov 17, 2018
Irrational Apartment Exuberance
Nov 8, 2018
Can Vegas Ever Build Too Much Convention Space?
Oct 10, 2018
Housing Top is In
Sep 20, 2018
Housing: Rates Up, Demand Down
Sep 10, 2018
Las Vegas: How Long can the Expensive Drunk Last?
Jun 7, 2018
Vegas's Greatest Week?
May 30, 2018
Las Vegas: Prices Increase for Housing and Parking
May 13, 2018
Malamud Retires, Remembering Rothbard
Jan 3, 2018
Sideways Skyscraper Curse
Dec 29, 2017
The New American Way: Get High and Shop Online
Nov 1, 2017
Little Inventory, Plenty of Squatters
Oct 23, 2017
What has Homebuilders so Confident?
Sep 12, 2017
Does K-12 funding=High ACT Scores?
Aug 30, 2017
Icahn's Perfect Timing
Aug 28, 2017
Americans Back to Borrowing a Lifestyle
Aug 3, 2017
Vegas Apartment Buying-Palooza
Jul 27, 2017
New Apartments Everywhere
Jul 1, 2017
Sessions' Pot War is Up in Smoke in Nevada
Jun 26, 2017
Las Vegas Housing: not exactly 2005....Yet
Jun 22, 2017
Bitcoin Mania Bypasses Las Vegas
Jun 14, 2017
Real Estate President to 86 1031s?
Jun 13, 2017
Polish Maverick's Place Peddled Again
Jun 12, 2017
Help Wanted: Lenders with No Experience (or Short Memories) to Make Risky Mortgages
Jun 10, 2017
Flip It, Flip It Good
May 31, 2017
Up, up and Away, or Grinding to a Halt?
May 22, 2017
Shortage of Hammer Swingers
May 19, 2017
Sin City Cash Burning
May 15, 2017
Less Supply = Higher Priced Homes
May 11, 2017
Millennials See White Picket Fences
May 3, 2017
Las Vegas Housing
Mar 30, 2017
No Need For Government Force Legal Pot Will Make Higher Wages
Mar 21, 2017
Big Boom and Big Bust, Jiggle Lives On
Mar 16, 2017
Trading Bad Paper Helps Underwater Homeowners
Mar 14, 2017
Buyers Buy, When Lenders Lend
Mar 8, 2017
Las Vegas: Too Many Dealers, Too Much Bad Credit, Just the Right Number of Lawyers
Feb 24, 2017
Turning Japanese, Again
Feb 12, 2017
Sin City's other Main Industry: Land!
Feb 10, 2017
We're Here for the Party, Not to Gamble
Feb 9, 2017
Las Vegas New Home Sales Smoking in February
Jan 23, 2017
The New Nevada: Taxpayer Bucks for Billionaires
Speeches & Lectures
8
Jun 22, 2017
Bitcoin Mania Bypasses Las Vegas
Jun 3, 2017
Illinois Heads toward Bankruptcy, while Bankrupting its Citizens
Mar 21, 2017
Freedom Through Technology
Mar 14, 2017
Sociopaths vs. Liberty
Jan 23, 2017
TAG: Unlimited Insurance, Unlimited Risk
Jan 23, 2017
Waging War with the Printing Press
Jan 23, 2017
Taxpayers in Revolt
Jan 23, 2017
Money and Banking - Speech to Mises University 2011
Whimsy
25
Jul 20, 2024
Tiger and Joe: Don't Know When to Quit
Feb 7, 2024
Sin City Super Bowl; What Could Go Wrong?
Jan 13, 2024
Chiefs-Dolphins on Peacock Proves Peter Gent's Prophecy
Dec 28, 2022
Movements to Rackets: The Falwells Rise and Fall
Jan 4, 2022
RIP Betty White: Good in Match Game's "Hard Seat"
Apr 1, 2021
HGTV: Stay Numb Everyone
Oct 20, 2020
Presidential Race Ouija Board
Mar 18, 2020
Rest in Peace Mon-sooor.
Sep 30, 2019
Hustlers' High Time Preference Does Them In
Nov 23, 2018
Golf Goes the way of Wrestling
Aug 6, 2018
6 Hours in Old San Juan
Sep 22, 2017
Garrison Keillor and the Pledge of Allegiance
Aug 6, 2017
Bolling's Trolling Catches Up with Him
Aug 5, 2017
Burt Bacharach in Vegas (great) and on IP (not so much)
Jul 30, 2017
Ravens Discovered to have Low Time Preferences
Jun 30, 2017
Is Clooney Selling at the Top?
May 25, 2017
Millennials, You Don't Need No Stinking Down Payment.
May 19, 2017
The Cake, the Rain, and Positive Mood
May 19, 2017
Sin City Cash Burning
Mar 3, 2017
Lawyers Cry Crocodile Tears, While Their Clients Dance On
Feb 26, 2017
Mary Wilson: Still Hustling to Prove Herself
Feb 23, 2017
Trump on the Couch
Feb 16, 2017
Chained to Trump's Rhythm
Feb 15, 2017
Once a Diva, Always a Diva
Jan 23, 2017
Online Dating Reaches the Elite