Seeing the Cat

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A Wedge Driven Through Society

• It's Milk That Makes the Cream ... Dec 12, 2016
• Some thoughts about Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" Aug 8, 2014
• Kristof: Where Is the Love? - NYTimes.com Nov 29, 2013
• George Bernard Shaw: 1885 speech on private property and privilege Nov 3, 2013
• Hoi oligoi Mar 21, 2013
• Rich and Poor Feb 27, 2013
• Ethics of Piracy Feb 9, 2013
• Gems from George: Poverty Amid Progress Feb 6, 2013
• Taxi Medallions and Rent-Seeking Jan 25, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 16 — Proudhon Jan 16, 2013
• Basic Principles of Ground Lease Agreements – Yes, a Contract! Jan 13, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 12 — Cushman Jan 12, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 10 — O'Reilly Jan 10, 2013
• Thomas Shearman: The Coming Billionaire (1891) Jan 8, 2013
• Everybody is out of town ... Dec 19, 2012
• Henry George's chapter in McNeill's "The Labor Movement: The Problem of Today" (1887) Dec 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 16 — Crabbe Nov 16, 2012
• Lower Rents as a City Slogan Oct 28, 2012
• Individual Account Retirement Plans: An Analysis of the 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances | EBRI Oct 27, 2012
• Our Daughters and Sons, and Opportunity Oct 24, 2012
• Chrystia Freeland: Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else Oct 21, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 16 — Plutarch Oct 16, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 9 — Sir Walter Scott Oct 7, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 5 — Spencer Oct 5, 2012
• Prime Tiburon real estate portfolio to be sold - Marin Independent Journal Oct 4, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 4 — Bagehot Oct 4, 2012
• On Wages, from an 1887 weekly ... and relevant in 2012 America Oct 2, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 30 — Exodus and the Bishop of Meath Sep 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 26 — Lowell Sep 30, 2012
• The Church(es) in Politics Sep 15, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 7 — Thorold Rogers and Ede Aug 7, 2012
• To make America more egalitarian, tax the value of land Jun 28, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 21 — Ernest Jones Jun 21, 2012
• Michael Kinsley: Inequality is even worse than everyone thought | iPolitics Jun 17, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 13 — Paine and Marmontel Jun 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 11 — Gibbon May 11, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 3 — Horace Greeley May 3, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 2 — Schopenauer May 2, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 30 — Henry George Apr 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 29 — Newman Apr 29, 2012
• My Faith-Based Retirement Apr 28, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 20 — Gerald Massey Apr 20, 2012
• Sagacity Apr 18, 2012
• Appropriating the Gifts of Nature Apr 13, 2012
• The Last Remnant of Sorcery Apr 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 13 — Jefferson Apr 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 1: Queen Elizabeth's Prayerbook Apr 1, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 17 - Dove Mar 17, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 14 - Coleridge Mar 14, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 8 - Emerson Mar 8, 2012
• The Land Questions: #36 — the land in the path of progress (2) Mar 6, 2012
• Earnings and findings — earned and unearned income Feb 27, 2012
• Mother Earth, Boom-Bust, Free Trade, Dogs-in-the-Manger (landlordism), and widely-spread Prosperity Feb 23, 2012
• Downton Abbey: The Landed Gentry Feb 20, 2012
• The Family Tree of Economics, and its Missing Limb Feb 4, 2012
• Shalom and Taxation Feb 3, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 28 — Archdeacon Paley Jan 28, 2012
• The Opposition to Land Value Taxation Jan 22, 2012
• Taxes kill jobs Dec 27, 2011
• "It was there for the taking" Dec 18, 2011
• Social Problems Dec 18, 2011
• Is inequality an inevitable byproduct of growth? Dec 18, 2011
• Rent and the Cost of War Nov 24, 2011
• Are We Socialists? Nov 21, 2011
• Congress: Trading stock on inside information? Nov 20, 2011
• Who are the Criminals? — Henry George, Jr., 1901 Nov 4, 2011
• Nein nein nein to the 9-9-9 tax plan - Fred Foldvary Oct 18, 2011
• Wealth Concentration data Oct 16, 2011
• The Owners of the United States Oct 6, 2011
• Thomas G. Shearman: Henry George's 'Mistakes' Oct 6, 2011
• Frances Willard, anti-poverty activist Oct 4, 2011
• Economic Indicator: Westport, CT, teardowns Oct 2, 2011
• Taking the Professor for a Ride Sep 29, 2011
• Robert Reich: Jobs Will Follow a Strengthening of the Middle Class Sep 18, 2011
• Taxing work does not create ... Sep 4, 2011
• Stock Market Gyrations Aug 18, 2011
• Why they might hate us May 6, 2011
• High Salaries: Are they earned? Feb 26, 2011
• Justice, Order — what do we value? Feb 25, 2011
• Pen's Parade: do you realize we're mostly dwarves? Feb 21, 2011
• What should we tax? Feb 10, 2011
• Right-sized government and the REVENUE side of the budget Feb 10, 2011
• Play "Brer Fox an' Brer Rabbit," a UK version of "The Landlords Game" (Monopoly) Jan 23, 2011
• Lizzie Magie's 1902 commentary on The Landlords' Game, on which Monopoly is based Jan 22, 2011
• 1915 Commission's report and 2011's scenario Jan 8, 2011
• Great fortunes and the rest of us Jan 6, 2011
• The New Nobility Jan 6, 2011
• Few Fortunes Survive Three Generations? Jan 6, 2011
• A Convention Prayer Jan 5, 2011
• What Tolstoy Taught: The Great Iniquity Nov 28, 2010
• What Tolstoy Taught: Human Rights Nov 28, 2010
• David Cay Johnston: Call Their Bluff, Mr. President Nov 25, 2010
• The Case Plainly Stated Nov 22, 2010
• James Love's paragraph summary of Progress and Poverty Nov 20, 2010
• Additional thoughts on Norton and Ariely's paper Nov 14, 2010
• God bless the child that's got his own Nov 13, 2010
• Wages in America (2009) Nov 10, 2010
• Do tax structures affect aggregate economic growth? Nov 7, 2010
• Mason Gaffney: Denying Inflation: Who, Why, and How Oct 15, 2010
• Private equity firms eyeing Yahoo Oct 15, 2010
• The November U.S. Senate Elections Oct 15, 2010
• Trickle Down Economics: The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell (Frank Rich, NYT) Oct 13, 2010
• Self-Pitying Wealthy Poor: The Fancy-School Factor - James Fallows Oct 13, 2010
• Krugman: Fear and Favor Oct 4, 2010
• Most Americans Wish U.S. was Like Sweden Sep 25, 2010
• How to Increase America's Saving Rate: Rich Americans Save Tax Cuts Instead of Spending Sep 15, 2010
• We’re No. 1(1)! Sep 13, 2010
• Obama to Call for $50 Billion Public Works Plan Sep 6, 2010
• Housing Choice - Help Today’s Owners or Future Buyers? Sep 5, 2010
• Could a Peanut Paste Called Plumpy'nut End Malnutrition? - NYTimes.com Sep 5, 2010
• How to End the Great Recession Sep 5, 2010
• For Social Security, a Birthday Makeover Aug 29, 2010
• Who is entitled to Ground Rent? The Vicar's Wife, or someone(s) else? Aug 28, 2010
• The End of Poverty? Think Again! Aug 24, 2010
• Small Investors Flee Stock Market Even as Companies Recover Aug 24, 2010
• Some random thoughts on Monopoly and Life Aug 21, 2010
• Why were resources expunged from neo-classical economics? | Martin Wolf's Exchange Aug 17, 2010
• Learning To Get Out Of The Way « Aldous Huxley | This I Believe Aug 15, 2010
• Borrowing on Expectations of Land Appreciation Aug 13, 2010
• Michael Hudson: The Road To Serfdom (2006) Aug 9, 2010
• David Stockman - Four Deformations of the Apocalypse Aug 7, 2010
• Public Wealth and Private Wealth Aug 6, 2010
• Stimulating the Well-Off to Stimulate the Economy Aug 6, 2010
• The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis, by Josh Kosman Aug 6, 2010
• Still in the Time of Economic Anxiety - NYTimes.com Aug 5, 2010
• Joe Stiglitz: the people are being cheated and the economy is getting poorer Jul 29, 2010
• The Woodpeckers' Tree System Jul 23, 2010
• Income Concentration: Piketty & Saez data through 2007 Jul 18, 2010
• Wealth concentration in China exceeds US Jul 7, 2010
• Why Do People Become Terrorists? Jul 1, 2010
• A Neuroscientist, Nature and Nurture, and America's Children in Financial Distress Jun 30, 2010
• Tackling America's Drug Addiction Jun 24, 2010
• Income Mobility and the Persistence Of Millionaires, 1999 to 2007 Jun 23, 2010
• The Prayer of the Landless Jun 18, 2010
• The Landlord's Prayer — Archer's version Jun 18, 2010
• William Allan's Landlord's Prayer Jun 18, 2010
• The Larger Struggle - David Brooks Jun 16, 2010
• New plan to make millions in profits without any investment - PakTribune Jun 16, 2010
• The oil and gas billionaire, and estate taxes Jun 14, 2010
• What an Estate Looks Like to the Taxman Jun 14, 2010
• Paying for Transportation Infrastructure is simple Jun 5, 2010
• Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5, 2010
• What's the real cost of living, in Pennsylvania? Jun 4, 2010
• Mother’s Eyes See Trouble With Tax Rolls May 31, 2010
• The Labour Problem ... population? or something else? May 30, 2010
• Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration and the Economy May 30, 2010
• When 2+3=6, who is entitled to the "extra" 1? Apr 27, 2010
• 47 percent Apr 26, 2010
• Looters in Loafers - Krugman Apr 24, 2010
• Hope rises for real financial reform - WaPo Apr 24, 2010
• Crosby: Democracy Apr 21, 2010
• Crosby: God's Gift (a poem) Apr 21, 2010
• NYT LTE's: It Happened on Wall St. and Main St. Apr 9, 2010
• Bits and Pieces from a 1914 Bi-Monthly Apr 9, 2010
• Mine! All Mine! Apr 8, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 1 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 2 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution 2007 — Wealth Concentration — part 3 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• Elizabeth Warren: Behind Consumer Agency Idea, a Fiery Advocate Mar 30, 2010
• For India’s Newly Rich Farmers, Limos Won’t Do Mar 30, 2010
• Monopoly History Mar 30, 2010
• Moses Mar 30, 2010
• Mason Gaffney: Corporations, Democracy and the US Supreme Court Mar 20, 2010
• Land in Manhattan Mar 19, 2010
• Who is prospering from Prop 13? Mar 17, 2010
• A thought about Glenn Beck, churches and social justice Mar 13, 2010
• How Is The Distribution Of Wealth Determined In The United States? Mar 11, 2010
• Union College Admits That It’s in Schenectady, NY Mar 9, 2010
• Is "chasing the bad guys" the highest good? Mar 9, 2010
• That $1 billion acre in Manhattan Mar 9, 2010
• Paring the Deficit, by Selling Part of the Radio Spectrum Mar 7, 2010
• U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty Mar 7, 2010
• Airport Landing Rights as our COMMON treasure Mar 1, 2010
• Debt in America Feb 26, 2010
• Nation Building — abroad and at home Feb 23, 2010
• The Top 400, and the Rest of Us Feb 22, 2010
• America's millionaires Feb 17, 2010
• Looking Forward Feb 14, 2010
• The Monkeys Disgrace Feb 14, 2010
• 2009Q4 Labor Underutilization Problems of US Workers by 2008 Income Decile Feb 13, 2010
• The House of Tranquillity: A "Middle Class Agenda" Feb 10, 2010