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Fred Foldvary
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Since 1997, Dr. Fred Foldvary has written weekly editorials for The Progress Report. Foldvary's commentaries are well respected for their currency, sound logic, wit, and consistent devotion to human freedom.

Editorials by Fred Foldvary:

Russia's North-Pole Land Grab July 2007
Whole Phooey on Antimonopoly Action June 2007
Mass Democracy Fails in Gaza June 2007
Protesting the G-8 Summit June 2007
Liquified Tax Dollars June 2007
Yoga for the Mind May 2007
The Man Who Used Liberty Dollars May 2007
Why People Get Fat May 2007
The Ethics of Land and Liberty May 2007
The Panic of 1907 April 2007
Killing Dolphins and Killing People April 2007
The Cruelty of Capitalism April 2007
United Kingdom Erases History April 2007
The Bear Will Get You April 2007
Problem of Evil Solved: Just Offset It March 2007
U.S. Judges Kill the Ninth Amendment March 2007
Wealth and Capital March 2007
That Big Stock Market Drop March 2007
Let the Mandaeans Come In February 2007
America’s Royalist Coin Set February 2007
The Futility of Not Tapping Land Value February 2007
How to Eliminate Eminent Domain February 2007
Minimize This! January 2007
Penguins and Global Warming January 2007
How to Make Baghdad Safe January 2007
Canada Commits Economic Suicide January 2007
How to Avoid Being a Petty Tyrant January 2007
The Origins of Evil December 2006
The Corn is as High as the Subsidy's Aye December 2006
Corruption in Tapping the Oil Rent December 2006
Real Estate Cycle on Schedule as Manufacturing Falls December 2006
War on Drugs Expands to Catnip November 2006
Milton Friedman (1912-2006) November 2006
How Not to Tax Oil November 2006
Plan C for Iraq November 2006
Government Financing of Political Campaigns October 2006
Population U.S.A. 300 Million October 2006
The U.S. Government's Power to Confiscate October 2006
U.S. Mint Seeks Monopoly October 2006
The Austrian School of Economics October 2006
Matilda's Funeral September 2006
Efficiency Taxes September 2006
Saudi Arabians Not Allowed to See the Cat September 2006
The Dark Matter in Economics September 2006
Land-Value Commissions August 2006
Government Regulation of Sneezing August 2006
The Natural Rights of the Child August 2006
Montenegro Becomes Independent August 2006
The Natural Minimum Wage July 2006
The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Peace between Israel and Palestine July 2006
200th Anniversary of Liechtenstein July 2006
Massachusetts Gets Medically Socialized July 2006
Liber-8 in 2008 with Unity08 July 2006
How to End Stinking Taxes Immediately June 2006
What's the Matter with Money? June 2006
Spain Going Ape for Animal Rights June 2006
Real Estate in 2020 June 2006
Fannie has been a Bad Girl May 2006
Stamps for Half of Forever May 2006
U.S. Government Demands Congestion Subsidy May 2006
Territocracy May 2006
Coping with Iran May 2006
Efficiency, Equity, Sustainability April 2006
The Ban on Philosophical and Economic Indecency April 2006
Iran Switch to Euros? Inconsequential! April 2006
French Youth Want Sécurité April 2006
Benjamin Franklin: America's Uncle March 2006
Why Iraq Failed March 2006
Market Process and Market Dynamics March 2006
What Penalty for Not Paying LVT? March 2006
The Economics of Social Welfare February 2006
The Ultimate Tax Reform February 2006
Why Aren't You an Anarchist? February 2006
Who Will Murder Steve Kubby? February 2006
The Real-Estate Deceleration January 2006
Does Government Have a License to Murder? January 2006
The Evenly Rotating Economy January 2006
Counting the Ways of Governmental Waste January 2006
Civil Society January 2006
Bolivia's Indian Chief January 2006
The Economics of Gravity December 2005
10th Anniversary of the Repeal of the Federal Time Tax December 2005
The Throne of Iniquity December 2005
Intelligent Design or Pure Evolution? December 2005
Capital and Interest November 2005
Philanthropy versus Government Welfare November 2005
The Transcultural Trance in France November 2005
No to Parental Notification November 2005
Tax Reform Panel Says: Cut Mortgage Tax Deduction October 2005
Land-Value Taps are Better than Neutral October 2005
Intervention is the Death of Productivity October 2005
Hurricanes and the Moral Purpose of Government October 2005
Few Dare Call it Reason September 2005
Speculators Rush into New Orleans, where Governments Fear to Tread September 2005
Slipping Through the Cracks of Fate September 2005
Emergency Public Finance for Disaster Relief September 2005
Redwood City Shoups Up Parking August 2005
Jewish Resistance at Gaza August 2005
Social Security 70 Years Too Old August 2005
Hiroshima, mon horreur August 2005
Iraq to Jews: Don't Come Back! July 2005
Anti-Terror Solution: Disunion! July 2005
Terror, Mass Transit, and Social Soil July 2005
Land Aid for Africa July 2005
June 23, 2005: The Day Liberty Died June 2005
Terror and the State of Israel June 2005
The Excess Burden of Entry into the USA June 2005
Do You Understand "Constitution"? June 2005
A Geoist Robinson Crusoe Story May 2005
Kleptodemocracy and Klepitalism May 2005
Underprivileged or Rights-Deprived? May 2005
On the Dictatorship of Relativism May 2005
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker May 2005
Photo-Enforced Traffic Fines April 2005
Robots Save Social Security April 2005
Pictures at a Web Exhibition April 2005
Potpourri on John Paul II April 2005
Choosing to Be or Not to Be March 2005
A Wolf in Banker's Clothing March 2005
String Theory and Land Rent March 2005
The Political Economy of South Africa March 2005
President's Advisory Panel on Tax Reform February 2005
Kyoto, Global Warming, and the Economy February 2005
Democracy in Saudi Arabia February 2005
Social Security or Personal Financial Security? February 2005
Why if there is God there is also Tragedy January 2005
What Do You Know About Freedom? January 2005
A Speedy Tsunami Recovery? It's Possible! January 2005
Socio-Economics January 2005
Aceh and the Governmental Tsunamis January 2005
Zero Tolerance for a Lack of Morality December 2004
Airplane Laptops Sí, Cellphones No! December 2004
Psychiatric Totalitarianism December 2004
Sarbanes-Oxley: Killing Enterprise to Save It December 2004
Elections in Ukraine, Palestine, Iraq November 2004
The Natural Laws of Economics November 2004
Prospects for Peace in Palestine and Israel November 2004
Anybody but George November 2004
Presidential Candidates' Economic Policies November 2004
Rent in an Economic Simulation October 2004
The 2004 Nobel Economics Prize October 2004
Energy Problem: Solved! October 2004
Affordable Housing Mandates and Inclusionary Zoning October 2004
The Presidential Debates Not! September 2004
Democracy in Indonesia and Iraq September 2004
A Subsidy to Greed, Revenge, and Harassment September 2004
The Trouble with Republicans September 2004
Sauerkraut, Watermelon, and Rent August 2004
The High School Reunion August 2004
Municipal Parking Citation Corruption August 2004
The Real Estate Bubble August 2004
The Trouble with Democrats August 2004
A Half-theory of Everything July 2004
A Georgist Eye for the Neoclassical Guy July 2004
The American Empire July 2004
Is Iraq Sovereign? July 2004
The Working Poor June 2004
Do Corporations Have Natural Rights? June 2004
Kerry and Bush for Vice President! June 2004
Geoism Via Private Communities June 2004
Caveat Emptor, Venditor, Dominator, Civis, Scriptor, Lector June 2004
The Economics of Suicide Bombing May 2004
We Don't Need Any Stinking Taxes May 2004
A History of Maltreatment May 2004
Full Sovereignty for Iraq! May 2004
The Rights of the Accused April 2004
Confessions of a Market Fundamentalist April 2004
Iraq Misjudgment Perils America - What to Do April 2004
Satellite Radio April 2004
Resisting Corruption March 2004
Toxic Fish? Disclose it! March 2004
Outsourcing March 2004
FreedomFest 2004 March 2004
Voters, Awake! Sheep shall not safely graze March 2004
Marriage, Shmarriage, why not Pairage? February 2004
Zero Tolerance for Bare Lemon Bumps! February 2004
Physiocratize February 2004
Smart Growth versus Wise Growth February 2004
British Empire Falls to Human Will January 2004
U.S. Imposes Flatly Wrong Tax on Iraq January 2004
Economic Forecast, 2004-2010 January 2004
Jean-Pierre Hallet (1927-2004) January 2004
Welfare Aid: What Form is Best? December 2003
Well being and being well off December 2003
Violence and the Destruction of Property December 2003
Trade Freely with China December 2003
Foie gras? Phooey, gross! December 2003
Asian Georgia's Democracy Lesson for Iraq November 2003
California Redeeming November 2003
'Racist!' November 2003
The Use of Force November 2003
The Right to Die October 2003
Eliminating the California Budget Deficit October 2003
The Mud Did Not Stick October 2003
Governors Should Be Recallable October 2003
$87 Billion for Iraq? Think Again. September 2003
More Democracy for Corporations September 2003
The Cost of Being the USA September 2003
Local Democracy Established in Iraq! September 2003
Make Labor Day Real: Untax Wages! September 2003
National Sales Tax Coming - Buyers Beware! August 2003
Buffett the Proposition 13 Slayer August 2003
California's Illegal Recall Mess August 2003
The not-so-great Wall of Israel August 2003
The California Governor Recall Election July 2003
The U.S. Budget Deficit and Fiscal Cannibals July 2003
Do Not Ban Tobacco Advertising July 2003
The Key to Peace is Rent July 2003
Supremely Correct on Sex June 2003
Untax my Car! June 2003
"Liberty Cheese" - Banned in the USA! June 2003
A Letter from a Persian June 2003
Tyrannous Tex May 2003
Testing the Iraq Hypotheses May 2003
My 300 Editorial Columns:
On Philosophy, Economics, Language, Law, and Governance
May 2003
The Policy Impact of Technology As It Affects Costs May 2003
Tax Cuts and Budget Deficits May 2003
Anarchism April 2003
Iraq: Avoid Fiat Money! April 2003
The Free Market Rocks! April 2003
Immediate Democracy for Iraq! April 2003
War and the U.S. Constitution March 2003
The Real Reason for the Iraq War March 2003
Apparatchik versus Full-Spectrum Public Finance March 2003
The Failure of Anti-war Protesters March 2003
Self-Government for Kurds March 2003
The Model Emergency Health Powers Act February 2003
Oil and War and Iraq February 2003
Why We Should Untax Dividends February 2003
US Military Should Quit Korea February 2003
The Political Economy of Star Trek January 2003
Paying for Gravity January 2003
Authoritarian Liberals Want Involuntary Servitude; Single-Taxers Say No! January 2003
Let Turkey Join NAFTA January 2003
The Budget Deficit of California December 2002
Congo Pygmies Surviving! December 2002
Don't Immunize Vaccinators December 2002
Monetary Geo-economics December 2002
Smaller is Better December 2002
Scrap Federal Sentences, Period. November 2002
An Editorial About Nothing November 2002
Independence for Negev November 2002
Vote for the Minor Party of Your Choice! November 2002
Constitutions and Candidates October 2002
Globalization and Globalization October 2002
Conservatism and Libertarianism: Cousins by Marriage October 2002
Dock Shutdown! Who Should Pay? October 2002
A Tale of Two Strategies October 2002
U.S. Government Loses War on Medical Drugs September 2002
Psychiatric Imprisonment in Oregon September 2002
On Invading Iraq, and the Terrorist Threat September 2002
WTO Unfair to US Exports September 2002
Keep the Forests Thick August 2002
Computers in Schools August 2002
Oh, Israel, Let them Protest Peacefully! August 2002
Zero-Tolerance for Brainy Cannabis! August 2002
Macroeconomics Summarized July 2002
Employee Stock Options - Expense Them or Eliminate Them! July 2002
Penalizing Raves, Festivals and Parties July 2002
Don't Pay Per Fire! July 2002
The Pledge of Allegiance and Vouchers July 2002
Has Deregulation Failed? June 2002
The Single-Person Motor Vehicle: Who really gains? June 2002
Geoism and Libertarianism June 2002
Joint Sovereignty for Kashmir June 2002
The Bermuda Tax Haven May 2002
Independence for East Timor May 2002
Mississippi the Litigation Moocher May 2002
Keep Internet Gambling Legal May 2002
Privatize the Government! April 2002
Don't Be Cruel to Critters April 2002
Learning to Love the Income Tax April 2002
Judea Capta April 2002
What Israel Must Do April 2002
Does Rent Pay for Landlord Services? March 2002
Is the Real Estate Market Voluntary? March 2002
Speculation versus Investment March 2002
Enlighten the Detainees March 2002
Protectionism, Sugar, and LifeSavers February 2002
Fixing Capitalism February 2002
The Olympics February 2002
Consumer Debt and Bankruptcy February 2002
Letters of Marque and Reprisal January 2002
Right and Wrong Lessons from Enron January 2002
Income Tax on Trial January 2002
Inflation or Deflation in 2002? January 2002
Guatemalans Protest the IMF and Seek Liberty January 2002
Argentina Shows Woes of Land and Money December 2001
Ammonium Nitrate: Regulate It December 2001
The Importance of Being Mobile December 2001
Terror Strikes Israel December 2001
Is the U.S. Constitution Terrorist? December 2001
Democracy for Afghanistan November 2001
They Don't Dare Call it "Rent" November 2001
Keep it Real November 2001
Anthrax Detection Solved! November 2001
The Permanent Liability Bankruptcy Option October 2001
The Crusades and Religious Supremacists October 2001
Policy is also an Instrument of War October 2001
Truthful Propaganda and Food Against Terror October 2001
The New Economic Realities September 2001
Justice is a Victim of Terror September 2001
Patents: Monopoly Privilege or Justified Property? September 2001
Zionism and Race September 2001
Pygmies and Tantalum August 2001
Guns: Dangerous or Protective? August 2001
Dump the Sales Tax August 2001
The Perfect Bus System August 2001
Is the US Economy in Recession? July 2001
Summit Protesters Need to Ask, Why? July 2001
Frederic Bastiat July 2001
The Japanese Economy July 2001
Chocolate Worker Slavery July 2001
Stop Milking Consumers June 2001
Classroom Experiment, Part Two June 2001
Corporations June 2001
Copyrights June 2001
Corporate Income Tax and Shakespeare May 2001
California Energy Crisis May 2001
World Peace May 2001
Liberty as Determined by my Cat May 2001
The Economy, Ursa Major, and 2008 May 2001
Supply-Side Economics April 2001
Saturday Mail April 2001
The Evil of Zoning April 2001
The Geo Way to Reduce Global Warming April 2001
Global Government to Steal Your Money April 2001
Classroom Experiment: Geoism is Better! March 2001
Sunscreen Banned while Ritalin Abused March 2001
The Zero-Tolerance Lemon Policy March 2001
Demand Revelation: Better than Voting March 2001
Reparations - Going All the Way February 2001
The Return of Monarchy February 2001
Death Penalty for Hemp Shampoo? February 2001
Ricardo and Marshall are Brothers January 2001
An Open Letter to President Bush January 2001
Electrical Newspeak in California January 2001
A Common Currency Creates More Wealth January 2001
The Economy in 2001 December 2000
Whose Child Is This? December 2000
The USA Constitution Worked Well December 2000
Let Employees Get Their Own Medical Insurance December 2000
Tech Stocks Down, Real Estate Up December 2000
Ballot Reform November 2000
Robot Pets are Here November 2000
Keep the Electoral College November 2000
Why I'm Voting 'No' on Propositions November 2000
The Liberty Amendment October 2000
Technology and Free Enterprise October 2000
Who Shall Own Jerusalem? October 2000
Immigration October 2000
Zhe, zher, zhim October 2000
Justice for the Native American Indian September 2000
The Rent, The Whole Rent, and Nothing But the Rent September 2000
The War on Drugs and Steve Kubby September 2000
Chlorine Cleans But Is It Safe? September 2000
Children Spying Against Parents August 2000
Sexual Harassment by Children? August 2000
Colombia Ruined by Drug Wars August 2000
The Lawsuit Tax August 2000
Don't Do It, Son't Say It, Don't Think It August 2000
'Never Again' Requires Self-Defense July 2000
The Natural Right to Sexual Orientation and Identity July 2000
The U.S. Census -- Betrayal of Trust July 2000
Gentrification July 2000
Genetically Manipulated Food June 2000
Peter McWilliams Martyred June 2000
The Village of Arden, 1900-2000 June 2000
In Memory of Tertius Chandler June 2000
Economics in Six Minutes May 2000
Again with the NATO expansion? May 2000
Freeze! Police Tactics Endanger the Public May 2000
Cell Phones May 2000
Keep Microsoft Whole April 2000
The Land Question in Zimbabwe April 2000
Is There a New Economy? April 2000
The Americans with Disabilities Act April 2000
The Broken Window March 2000
The Government's War on Bumper Stickers March 2000
Traffic School March 2000
State and Marriage March 2000
The Right to Abortion March 2000
Primarily a Waste February 2000
Taxes: 19th-century Sales versus 21st-century Rent February 2000
The Paradox of Government-Monopoly Medicine February 2000
When You Vote February 2000
How to Curb Urban Sprawl January 2000
The Confederate Flag Flap January 2000
When Government Scripts TV January 2000
Free Health Care Aid to the Poor, Illegal?! January 2000
The Future, 2000 to 2999 January 2000
The Digital Millennium, 1000 to 1999 December 1999
The Federalized Militarized Police December 1999
An Economics Quiz December 1999
True Free Trade is True Fair Trade December 1999
Rule by Decree -- It's Unamerican! November 1999
Traffic Decongestants Needed November 1999
East Germany: Sick from Too Much Government November 1999
Should There Be a Debt Jubilee? November 1999
The 'Living Wage' October 1999
End All Farm Subsidies October 1999
Practical Enlightenment October 1999
Concealed Weapons October 1999
Abolish the NEA October 1999
Getting Ready for Y2K September 1999
Goldilocks and the Three Bares September 1999
The Police: Protectors and Predators September 1999
East Timor: National Independence or Autonomy? September 1999
Feng Shui Economics August 1999
The Ten Commandments August 1999
The Ozos -- 2000-2009 August 1999
Kill the Death Tax August 1999
China and Taiwan August 1999
On Jury Duty July 1999
Pygmies in Paradise July 1999
The Margin of Production July 1999
A New Trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal July 1999
Let's Reform Asset-Foreiture Laws June 1999
The Polluted Indian Ocean June 1999
How to Govern Kosovo June 1999
The War on Yugoslavia is Illegal June 1999
Postal Tyranny May 1999
Hotels Also Snitch May 1999
The Citizens' Dividend May 1999
IRS Takes Critic's House May 1999
NATO's Jubilee April 1999
The Fate of Europe April 1999
The Endangered Species Act April 1999
The Tragedy of Kosovo April 1999
Protests Squash Banks' Privacy Invasion Plan March 1999
The Becker Double Decker March 1999
Tax Reform March 1999
Foldvary's Top Ten Books of All Time March 1999
Roving Wiretaps March 1999
Welfare Reform February 1999
Sickouts at Whose Expense? February 1999
To King Abdullah of Jordan February 1999
Keep Government Out of the Stock Market February 1999
Natural Monopolies January 1999
Your Banker Will Tell on You January 1999
Snitches & Drugs January 1999
Let's Have No More Budget Crunches December 1998
The Pygmies Return Home December 1998
Abolish the Presidency! December 1998
Happy Chanuka December 1998
Save the Penguins December 1998
Number Nine, Number Nine November 1998
Thanksgiving Day -- The True Story November 1998
Left Wing and Right Wing November 1998
Interest and Usury November 1998
Do Animals Have Moral Rights? November 1998
Shackled Speech on the Internet October 1998
Sports: Let the Fans Pay October 1998
Free Market Health Care October 1998
Tax Financial Capital? Bad Idea October 1998
Legalize Hemp Cultivation October 1998
Abolish the Death Penalty September 1998
Abolish Impeachment September 1998
The Universal Ethic September 1998
Lessons from Russia September 1998
Free Speech and Food Supplements August 1998
Currency Boards for Troubled Moneys August 1998
May the US Government Copyright Public Signs? August 1998
Think Globally, Act Philatelically August 1998
Rafting Over the Economic Rapids July 1998
The Twice-Single Tax July 1998
Bastille Day July 1998
The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights July 1998
Y2K and the Collapse of Modern Civilization June 1998
Land Speculation: What Is It Bad For? June 1998
Kiaochow's 100th Anniversary June 1998
People's Republic of Berkeley June 1998
Get Rid of Speed Limits June 1998
Violent Children and the Village May 1998
Stamps & Politics May 1998
America's War of 1898 May 1998
Israel's Jubilee May 1998
150 Years After the Communist Manifesto April 1998
Attacks on the Naturist April 1998
Peace in Northern Ireland April 1998
Japan's Turnaround April 1998
Saving Montserrat March 1998
Trade With Cuba March 1998
Bankrupt Policy March 1998
Affirmative Action and Assertive Equality March 1998
Liberty and the Internet March 1998
Socialized Insecurity February 1998
Strafing Iraq February 1998
Balanced Budget? Not Really February 1998
What's Wrong with Economics? February 1998
Fully Informed Juries January 1998
Ignorance, Apathy and Greed January 1998
Save the Efe Pygmies in Africa January 1998
Will There Be a Recession? January 1998
Abolish the IMF January 1998
A Global Language December 1997
School Choice December 1997
Drug Policy Reform December 1997
Environmental Justice December 1997
Civil Asset Forfeiture November 1997
Twice-Stolen Land November 1997
Testing Economic Freedom November 1997
The Heart of Economics in One Short Story November 1997
The Global Boom November 1997
More Free Trade October 1997
Inflation, Employment and Money October 1997
Democracy Needs Reforming October 1997
The Ability to Extract October 1997
How to Really Balance the Budget September 1997
Must We Have the Poor With Us? September 1997
Strike Two! September 1997
Solution to the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict September 1997

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