![]() about Fred Foldvary
| 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:
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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