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Academic Articles
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- 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)
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Book Review
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- 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
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Economics
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- Dec 16, 2024 Regulate and Pretend
- Dec 14, 2024 America is not ready for a Javier Milei
- 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?
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Las Vegas Market
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- 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
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Speeches & Lectures
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- 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
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Whimsy
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- 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