Seeing the Cat

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Absentee Ownership

• "Proputty" — A Lecturette in Rhyme, by J. W. Bengough Jul 4, 2020
• It's Milk That Makes the Cream ... Dec 12, 2016
• Who Gets the Land Rent, and Why: Two NYC Stories Nov 9, 2014
• Basic Principles of Ground Lease Agreements – Yes, a Contract! Jan 13, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 13 — Arnold Jan 13, 2013
• Henry George's chapter in McNeill's "The Labor Movement: The Problem of Today" (1887) Dec 19, 2012
• Baltimore Ground Rents — some history and some principles Dec 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 10 — Spencer Dec 10, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 9 — Murray and Arnold Dec 9, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 5 — Sismondi Dec 5, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 3 — John Bright Dec 3, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 2 — Cobden Dec 2, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 28 — Morris and Ruskin Nov 28, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar — addendum: St. Ambrose and Pope Paul VI Nov 25, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 21 — William Morris Nov 21, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 20 — Isaiah Nov 20, 2012
• Land Speculation in Rural Indiana Nov 15, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 15 — O'Reilly Nov 15, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 14 — Jones Nov 14, 2012
• Corn Belt Farmland: The Newest Real Estate Bubble? : NPR Nov 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 16 — Plutarch Oct 16, 2012
• Born Yesterday Oct 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 3 — Marmontel Oct 3, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 30 — Exodus and the Bishop of Meath Sep 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 25 — Arnold Sep 25, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 13 — Winstanley Sep 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 12 — Grant Allen Sep 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 10 — Arnold Sep 10, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 8 — Sir Thomas More Sep 8, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 6 — A. R. Wallace Sep 6, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 14 — Abbe Lamennais Aug 14, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 13 — Emerson Aug 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 12 — The Abbe Lemennais and Pascal Aug 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 10 — Dickens Aug 10, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 7 — Thorold Rogers and Ede Aug 7, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 31 - John Stuart Mill Jul 31, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 30 — Wallace Jul 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 27 — John Morley Jul 27, 2012
• Bankrupt in California Jul 14, 2012
• To make America more egalitarian, tax the value of land Jun 28, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 19 — John Stuart Mill Jun 19, 2012
• License fees for every worker, or tax land value for revenue? Jun 16, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 12 — Adam Smith May 12, 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 10 — Goldsmith Apr 10, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 4 — Cardinal Vaughan Apr 4, 2012
• Goldsmith, a supplement to the "Earth for All" collection Apr 1, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 21 — John Stuart Mill Mar 21, 2012
• Henry Ware Allen: Special Privilege Mar 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 10 - Thoreau Mar 10, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 9 — Spence Mar 9, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 8 - Emerson Mar 8, 2012
• The Land Questions: #35 — the land in the path of progress (1) Mar 7, 2012
• The Land Questions: #32: Crop subsidies Mar 3, 2012
• The Land Questions: #29 — Selling the Toll Roads Feb 29, 2012
• Earnings and findings — earned and unearned income Feb 27, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: February 26 — Sismondi and Ruskin Feb 26, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: February 24 — Cadwalader Golden Feb 24, 2012
• The Land Questions: #22 — Infrastructure and Land Values Feb 22, 2012
• The Land Questions: #21 — Paying for Transportation Infrastructure Feb 21, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: February 20 - Herbert Spencer Feb 20, 2012
• A 1938 NYT Letter to the Editor: Collecting Ground Rent Feb 16, 2012
• NYT Invitation to a Dialogue - A National Service Program Feb 15, 2012
• The Land Questions: #13 — Electric Utilities Feb 13, 2012
• The Land Questions: #11 — Ports Feb 11, 2012
• WSJ LTE: incentives for growth in cities Jan 27, 2012
• Mason Gaffney: An Alternative Reform Jan 22, 2012
• Jefferson's Principles Dec 3, 2011
• Who are the Criminals? — Henry George, Jr., 1901 Nov 4, 2011
• Another whistle-blower, ignored by authorities ... Oct 9, 2011
• The Owners of the United States Oct 6, 2011
• Taking the Professor for a Ride Sep 29, 2011
• LTE: Rising Rate of Poverty - NYTimes.com Sep 26, 2011
• Robert Reich: Jobs Will Follow a Strengthening of the Middle Class Sep 18, 2011
• Taxing work does not create ... Sep 4, 2011
• Flies and horses, vines and pines ... May 3, 2011
• Thinking about taxes and jobs Feb 16, 2011
• Public Ownership of essential utilities Feb 10, 2011
• Sharing the burden of the cost of providing public services Feb 10, 2011
• Lizzie Magie's 1902 commentary on The Landlords' Game, on which Monopoly is based Jan 22, 2011
• The New Nobility Jan 6, 2011
• What Tolstoy Taught: Human Rights Nov 28, 2010
• The Case Plainly Stated Nov 22, 2010
• God bless the child that's got his own Nov 13, 2010
• Trickle Down Economics: The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell (Frank Rich, NYT) Oct 13, 2010
• Quarter days Sep 23, 2010
• How to Increase America's Saving Rate: Rich Americans Save Tax Cuts Instead of Spending Sep 15, 2010
• Obama to Call for $50 Billion Public Works Plan Sep 6, 2010
• How to End the Great Recession Sep 5, 2010
• Who is entitled to Ground Rent? The Vicar's Wife, or someone(s) else? Aug 28, 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
• Michael Hudson: The Road To Serfdom (2006) Aug 9, 2010
• Joe Stiglitz: the people are being cheated and the economy is getting poorer Jul 29, 2010
• The Woodpeckers' Tree System Jul 23, 2010
• The Prayer of the Landless Jun 18, 2010
• New plan to make millions in profits without any investment - PakTribune Jun 16, 2010
• Paying for Transportation Infrastructure is simple Jun 5, 2010
• Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5, 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
• Crosby: God's Gift (a poem) Apr 21, 2010
• Bits and Pieces from a 1914 Bi-Monthly Apr 9, 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
• Monopoly History Mar 30, 2010
• Mason Gaffney: Corporations, Democracy and the US Supreme Court Mar 20, 2010
• Land in Manhattan Mar 19, 2010
• Struggling Governments Get Creative to Raise Income Mar 19, 2010
• Who is prospering from Prop 13? Mar 17, 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
• That $1 billion acre in Manhattan Mar 9, 2010
• U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty Mar 7, 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
• How should we-the-people pay for ... snow removal? Feb 15, 2010
• Looking Forward Feb 14, 2010
• The Monkeys Disgrace Feb 14, 2010
• Land, labor and capital: cleaning up after the snow storm Feb 14, 2010
• "I Am For Men" Feb 3, 2010
• Do We Really Have to Create Man-made Misery to Supplement What Nature Provides? Feb 1, 2010
• 10 of the largest endowments in N.E. Jan 31, 2010
• Prosper California Tax Reform Initiative Jan 31, 2010
• Reading Lowell Harriss Jan 31, 2010
• "The End of Poverty? Think Again" Jan 31, 2010
• The other Davos website Jan 30, 2010
• Tishman Speyer Surrenders Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Jan 26, 2010
• MLK: An edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring Jan 18, 2010
• Middle Class Wealth Jan 18, 2010
• Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16, 2010
• I hate to disagree with Chip Case, but I must Jan 13, 2010
• Neoclassical economists are rich people's useful idiots. Dec 31, 2009
• The Landed Gentry ... this time, in Pakistan Aug 18, 2009
• Follow the Money: A Close Look at Recent Southern California Foreclosures Aug 18, 2009
• So is the Woodstock Generation going to fix America's most serious problems? Aug 13, 2009
• The Ethics of Sharecropping, Taxation ... and Theft Jul 23, 2009
• Opportunities, Privilege, Rent — and a better way to fund our common spending Jul 22, 2009
• PARABLE OF THE OFFICE BUILDING Jul 21, 2009
• "END ALL TAXES - EXCEPT ONE" Jun 13, 2009
• Life on a Small Island Jun 11, 2009
• What You Get for... $465,000 - NYTimes.com Jun 3, 2009
• Thou shalt not suffer thyself or anybody else to be stolen from May 23, 2009
• Land and Freedom May 23, 2009
• What is the point of sending stimulus money to a state which chooses not to tax its land value?? May 21, 2009
• An Hour with the BBC World Service May 11, 2009
• The Rich List May 5, 2009
• Neuroscience and social deprivation | I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told | The Economist May 5, 2009
• Pirates threatening revenge ... Apr 13, 2009
• Currents & Undercurrents, Rolling Tides, and Ponds & Streams Apr 12, 2009
• How Do We Fix an Ailing Economy? Apr 12, 2009
• Michael Kinsley - The Senate's Estate Tax Debate Apr 10, 2009
• Just What is Home Equity? Feb 25, 2009
• Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities Feb 16, 2009
• The 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances: Are we going to complain, or are we going to create the conditions which will improve things? Feb 16, 2009
• Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities Feb 16, 2009
• A Price for Existence Feb 15, 2009
• How Might We Stimulate the Economy — at minimal expense? Feb 9, 2009
• Should Landlords Share in their Tenants' Profits? Should our Urban Landlords be Society's Big Winners? Feb 9, 2009
• Who do we mean when we say "Main Street?" Feb 5, 2009
• Sharecropping on Madison Avenue, NYC Feb 3, 2009
• Who is entitled to the economic rent on Bolivia's trove of lithium? Feb 2, 2009
• Federal Gifts to Landlords Feb 2, 2009
• A Unitarian-Universalist Perspective on the Economic Crisis Jan 26, 2009
• Slum Dog Millionaire, India and America Jan 25, 2009
• Cashing in on urban land value ... who is entitled to it? Jan 23, 2009
• Let Us Now Praise the Back Roads of Alabama Jan 23, 2009
• Susan Pace Hamill: The Vast Injustice Perpetuated by State and Local Tax Policy Jan 22, 2009
• Dumbest Thing Voters Did Jan 18, 2009
• The Landlord's OTHER Prayer Jan 17, 2009
• Some Factoids from the CBO on Infrastructure Investment Jan 17, 2009
• Landlording in NYC: "We don't pay taxes, only the little people pay taxes." Jan 3, 2009
• Eisenhower's roads to prosperity Jan 2, 2009
• The landowner and the taxpayer Dec 29, 2008
• Daily Kos: One Person's Lot is Person's Loot Dec 11, 2008
• Michael Kinsley on "Progress & Poverty" Dec 6, 2008
• Bailing out the Private Equity crowd Dec 5, 2008
• Taxes and Tolls Sought in Plan to Save M.T.A. - NYTimes.com Nov 29, 2008
• Trickle-Up Economics Nov 29, 2008
• Dying of Consumption - NYT Nov 29, 2008
• Tom Friedman, NYT 11/26/08 - All Fall Down Nov 29, 2008
• Change Needed to End Boom-Bust Cycles Nov 27, 2008
• Leo Tolstoy — The Last Station — and Henry George Nov 18, 2008
• High-Income Households ... some additional SCF data, relevant to Obama's SS tax options Nov 9, 2008
• Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration, and Ups & Downs in Consumer Spending Nov 7, 2008
• Americans and Mass Transit Nov 1, 2008
• That acre in midtown Manhattan: $800 million — as a teardown! Nov 1, 2008
• Fareed Zakaria: How to Spread Democracy Nov 1, 2008
• Spreading the "wealth" — this time, let's talk about income Nov 1, 2008
• Progress, and Poverty — how do they relate? Oct 28, 2008
• I'm not thrilled with our choices in November Oct 28, 2008
• Spreading the Wealth: Some kinds of wealth OUGHT to be spread! Oct 28, 2008
• NYS leasing out its assets to private sector? Oct 28, 2008
• Not Everyone Should Own a Home - WSJ.com Oct 28, 2008
• Henry George was right ... Oct 15, 2008
• We've made a secular religion of homeownership Oct 15, 2008
• Rich in Natural Resources Oct 2, 2008
• Pulitzer Prize Winner Stresses Ethical Taxation Oct 1, 2008
• The World Distribution of Wealth, part I: how does the US compare to the rest of the world Sep 28, 2008
• The World Distribution of Wealth, part II: Natural Resources and Ownership Sep 28, 2008
• The World Distribution of Wealth, part III: Deciles of Wealth Distribution. Sep 28, 2008
• Those Shareholders who are being wiped out ... who are they? - or, "How's it trickling?" Sep 26, 2008
• Democratic Capitalism ... Sep 24, 2008
• We all contribute to rent. Some of us get to live off it. How does this fit with the notion that we are created equal? Sep 24, 2008
• He who sees the truth ... Sep 24, 2008
• A Budget is a Moral Document Sep 24, 2008
• An Election Season Thought Sep 22, 2008
• Productive loans, vs non-productive ones Sep 22, 2008
• A 21st Century Georgist in the Revised Common Lectionary Sep 22, 2008
• LA Times: Can California survive 'no new taxes'? Sep 17, 2008
• That block in Manhattan ... Sep 17, 2008
• Being born into the Landed Gentry is like holding the winning lottery ticket Sep 6, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: Income Data and the Future of the Nation Sep 4, 2008
• A Gem from Luke North Sep 3, 2008
• Gold-based lease could cause million-dollar rent hike for Forest City Enterprises Sep 3, 2008
• Valuing life, and applying fiscal stimulus, and setting us all equal Sep 2, 2008
• Downtown Nantucket: Who Should Get the Rent? Sep 2, 2008
• How do people who are created equal share resources equitably? Sep 1, 2008
• PBS's NOW, 8/1/08: Alaska: Governor Palin & Oil Resources — Who Do They Belong To? Sep 1, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: Can You Hear Opportunity Knocking? Aug 26, 2008
• Joe Stiglitz: Turn left for growth Aug 26, 2008
• Why are the Working Poor Poor? Aug 26, 2008
• Renters deserve a better shake - Boston Globe Aug 14, 2008
• Advances in Local Emergency Services: How Should We Pay for Them? Aug 2, 2008
• new Lincoln Institute Study — Property Tax Assessment Limits: Lessons from 30 Years of Experience Jul 22, 2008
• Low Rent, East Side Location - See Landlord, if You’re Famous Jul 22, 2008
• Technically Speaking, Market Analysis and Theory: Saturday AM Coffee: A Plethora of Choices, for Some Jul 20, 2008
• Transfers of Wealth Overseas Jul 20, 2008
• Mandela's B-Day message: Rich should help poor Jul 18, 2008
• Cindy McCain's San Diego condo (the oldest of their 3) Jul 16, 2008
• WealthandWant.com: The Wealth Concentration Tables Jul 16, 2008
• We All Pay for Leona Helmsley’s Bequest to Dogs - NYT Jul 10, 2008
• Tax Analysts column: The Price of Civilization Jul 4, 2008
• Leona Helmsley’s Fortune May Go to Benefit Dogs Jul 4, 2008
• Bill Gates: How Can He Best Use His Wealth and Influence to Help the World? Jul 3, 2008
• Do you own an oil company? Jul 3, 2008
• David Cay Johnston doesn't get it — yet Jun 25, 2008
• Orthodox Anglicans hint schism, stop short of split Jun 25, 2008
• Halving US Poverty in 10 Years Jun 19, 2008
• A Budget is a Moral Document Jun 16, 2008
• The Landed Gentry Jun 16, 2008
• The Landlord's Prayer Jun 10, 2008
• Oil, Land, Water — who among us is entitled to privatize their value? Jun 8, 2008
• Alaska Oil Revenues Tally High Jun 8, 2008
• One Solution for Many Problems? Jun 8, 2008
• Golf Courses, Assessments, Property Taxes, and Nonmembers May 28, 2008
• Taxes that protect our firefighters May 28, 2008
• Taxes as the Price We Pay for a Civilized Society — But What Taxes? May 28, 2008
• Is LVT the answer to all our problems? May 28, 2008
• The Price of Land in the New York Metropolitan Area May 15, 2008
• Are you going to be part of the problem, or part of the solution? May 10, 2008
• Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: Rafe Esquith sort of sees it! Apr 28, 2008
• Abolish All 'Taxes' - NYT Apr 17, 2008
• Taxes as oppression, taxes as incentives: Alabama Apr 12, 2008
• Fixing Wages, and Fixing Housing Affordability — for All of Us Apr 1, 2008
• Fortunes Made in Real Estate Apr 1, 2008
• Is LVT the answer? It depends what the question is. Apr 1, 2008
• The Taxpayer at 72nd and Madison Apr 1, 2008
• Working harder, making others richer Apr 1, 2008
• Affordable housing — for all of us. What policies promote it? Mar 31, 2008
• Landholders, windfalls, productive effort and community revenue Mar 30, 2008
• Who Should Get the Land Rent? Mar 30, 2008
• Who Should Get the Land Rent? Mar 2, 2008