Seeing the Cat

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Economic Rent

• Dr. McGlynn's Lesson from the 1886 New York City Election Jul 5, 2023
• The Single Tax: An Essay on the Single Tax in 50 Words Mar 31, 2020
• Meum, Tuum and Stealum Mar 28, 2020
• Three Easy Steps Downhill; Our Country, Right or Wrong; Philippina, or "America Up to Date" Oct 16, 2017
• Another Wise LTE, from 1932 Oct 14, 2017
• A Poem of Political Economy — likely J. W. Bengough, from 1887 Sep 11, 2017
• It's Milk That Makes the Cream ... Dec 12, 2016
• The Henry George Idea in One Hundred Words Feb 14, 2016
• Giving Away the Commons ... Land Rent for Cottages on Forest Service Lands Sep 12, 2014
• U.S. Government Sells 400,000 Acres in Gulf Aug 23, 2014
• Better Insurance Against Inequality - NYTimes.com Apr 14, 2014
• Republican tax legislation contains a gem: Phase out mortgage deduction Mar 16, 2014
• Shiller: Too Many Graduating Seniors Go Into Finance Sep 28, 2013
• "the collectively earned increment" Aug 1, 2013
• Giving consideration to a just tax Apr 11, 2013
• Taxi Medallions and Rent-Seeking Jan 25, 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
• The Mortgage on the Farm Dec 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 25 — Alfred Marshall Nov 25, 2012
• Corn Belt Farmland: The Newest Real Estate Bubble? : NPR Nov 13, 2012
• Individual Account Retirement Plans: An Analysis of the 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances | EBRI Oct 27, 2012
• That acre in Manhattan Oct 21, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 5 — Spencer Oct 5, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 2 — Jefferies Oct 2, 2012
• One's "Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
• Stiglitz: "Mitt Romney’s Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
• You Didn't Build That! Sep 2, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 5: Patrick Edward Dove Aug 5, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 4 — Adam Smith Aug 4, 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
• On land producing income for local communities — with thoughts of Ipswich's Little Neck "trust" Jul 29, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 29 — Ecclesiastes Jul 29, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 27 — John Morley Jul 27, 2012
• High Rent as the Best Manure Jul 4, 2012
• The Rent of Land, and Government Expense Jun 28, 2012
• NYT 99 years ago ... a "Lower Rents" bill in Albany Jun 27, 2012
• Appropriating the Gifts of Nature Apr 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 31 — Adam Smith Mar 31, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 27 — Paine and Penn Mar 27, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 26 - Spinoza Mar 26, 2012
• The Unearned Increment — Unearned By Whom?? Earned by Whom? Mar 25, 2012
• Developer Inks 99-Year Lease Mar 23, 2012
• Bob Andelson: An Open Letter to Pope John Paul II Mar 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 9 — Spence Mar 9, 2012
• The Land Questions: #35 — the land in the path of progress (1) Mar 7, 2012
• The Land Questions: #37 Mar 7, 2012
• The Land Questions: #36 — the land in the path of progress (2) Mar 6, 2012
• The Land Questions: #30 — Public Lands Mar 1, 2012
• Earnings and findings — earned and unearned income Feb 27, 2012
• The Land Questions: #27 — Financing a New Subway Line Feb 27, 2012
• Brief Statement of Single Tax Philosophy Feb 26, 2012
• The value of land is the day-to-day product of the community Feb 22, 2012
• The Land Questions: #22 — Infrastructure and Land Values Feb 22, 2012
• The Land Questions: #21 — Paying for Transportation Infrastructure Feb 21, 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 Earth-for-All Calendar: February 15 — Plutarch Feb 15, 2012
• Congressfolk growing rich while in office Feb 7, 2012
• Toward an Ethical Democratic Free Society Jan 21, 2012
• Vie Peterson on Henry George's one tax Jan 18, 2012
• David Cay Johnston: Is It Is Time To Drop Income Taxes? Jan 9, 2012
• "It was there for the taking" Dec 18, 2011
• Is inequality an inevitable byproduct of growth? Dec 18, 2011
• The Superficial Reformer Dec 4, 2011
• Franklin Hichborn: The Single Tax — with a good graphic Nov 28, 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
• 0-0-0-0-100 Oct 15, 2011
• Thomas G. Shearman: Henry George's 'Mistakes' Oct 6, 2011
• What's an intact tire and your car's alignment worth to you, per year? Sep 25, 2011
• THE RIOTS Aug 9, 2011
• Who benefits when America sells off our airwaves? Aug 2, 2011
• The Population-Value of Natural Resources Jul 14, 2011
• A Better Way to Do Housing Apr 11, 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
• What Tolstoy Taught: Human Rights Nov 28, 2010
• James Love's paragraph summary of Progress and Poverty Nov 20, 2010
• Thy Kingdom Come! Nov 14, 2010
• God bless the child that's got his own Nov 13, 2010
• Do tax structures affect aggregate economic growth? Nov 7, 2010
• Get Rich Quick Scheme Nov 7, 2010
• One Nation, Two Deficits — and how to fix things Oct 15, 2010
• Khosla, Sun Co-Founder, Uses Capitalism to Help Poor Oct 15, 2010
• FIRE Sector Strikes Again: Resale Fees That Only Developers Could Love 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
• How to End the Great Recession Sep 5, 2010
• Some random thoughts on Monopoly and Life Aug 21, 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
• Income Mobility and the Persistence Of Millionaires, 1999 to 2007 Jun 23, 2010
• New plan to make millions in profits without any investment - PakTribune Jun 16, 2010
• Paying for Transportation Infrastructure is simple Jun 5, 2010
• So how do we reduce our reliance on oil? May 31, 2010
• The Labour Problem ... population? or something else? May 30, 2010
• Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration and the Economy May 30, 2010
• Education and Democracy May 29, 2010
• When 2+3=6, who is entitled to the "extra" 1? Apr 27, 2010
• Hope rises for real financial reform - WaPo Apr 24, 2010
• It is time for a paradigm shift on housing 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
• For India’s Newly Rich Farmers, Limos Won’t Do Mar 30, 2010
• Boston Globe article on Little Neck, the Feoffees and the tenants Mar 21, 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
• 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
• Airport Landing Rights as our COMMON treasure Mar 1, 2010
• Nation Building — abroad and at home Feb 23, 2010
• America's millionaires Feb 17, 2010
• Looking Forward Feb 14, 2010
• Land, labor and capital: cleaning up after the snow storm Feb 14, 2010
• Which part of a house is unaffordable? Feb 12, 2010
• Do We Really Have to Create Man-made Misery to Supplement What Nature Provides? Feb 1, 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
• The Great 18-year Real Estate Cycle Jan 30, 2010
• Tishman Speyer Surrenders Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Jan 26, 2010
• The Feoffees, the Ipswich School Committee and the TENANTS of Little Neck Jan 23, 2010
• Middle Class Wealth Jan 18, 2010
• Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16, 2010
• Wealth Concentration data Jan 11, 2010
• Income Concentration Jan 11, 2010
• Neoclassical economists are rich people's useful idiots. Dec 31, 2009
• First-time homebuyers as sharecroppers Nov 9, 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
• William Jennings Bryan, on liberty and future generations Aug 5, 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
• "END ALL TAXES - EXCEPT ONE" Jun 13, 2009
• Life on a Small Island Jun 11, 2009
• Is California Over-Taxed? Jun 7, 2009
• Land Value Taxation — Connecticut's legislature just passed enabling legislation for New London to try it! Jun 3, 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
• What is the point of sending stimulus money to a state which chooses not to tax its land value?? May 21, 2009
• Gary Schilling's idea ... May 14, 2009
• 1 in 5 Pennsylvania Families Lack Sufficient Income to Meet Their Most Modestly Defined Needs May 14, 2009
• Book Review — Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back May 11, 2009
• Update on the Little Neck (Ipswich, MA) sale by the Feoffees of Ipswich's Public Schools May 11, 2009
• Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us ... May 11, 2009
• An Hour with the BBC World Service May 11, 2009
• The UK Rich List — some additional thoughts — with reference to America, as well May 9, 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
• People's Budget Day: the Centennial Apr 29, 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
• About Land Value Taxation Apr 8, 2009
• Just What is Home Equity? Feb 25, 2009
• Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities Feb 16, 2009
• A Price for Existence Feb 15, 2009
• Marketing the Goodness of God Feb 15, 2009
• Equal Rights Feb 14, 2009
• The ‘W’ Word, Re-engaged - ["Welfare"] Feb 9, 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
• All those billions and trillions ... how do they relate to household wealth and household income? Feb 6, 2009
• Grocery Store Parking Lot: Sprawl in Microcosm Feb 5, 2009
• Who do we mean when we say "Main Street?" Feb 5, 2009
• Sharecropping on Madison Avenue, NYC Feb 3, 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
• NYT: Property Values - What You Get for ... $850,000 Jan 21, 2009
• Dumbest Thing Voters Did Jan 18, 2009
• The Landlord's OTHER Prayer Jan 17, 2009
• Mark Twain: The War Prayer Jan 4, 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
• The Foldvarium: How to Extirpate Poverty Dec 21, 2008
• The Feoffees may sell Little Neck to the tenants ... for ever and ever Dec 18, 2008
• Daily Kos: One Person's Lot is Person's Loot Dec 11, 2008
• A Property Tax Cut Could Help Save Buffalo - WSJ.com Dec 7, 2008
• Change.gov Dec 7, 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
• Should we tax action, or tax inaction? Nov 27, 2008
• Mason Gaffney: "The Great Crash of 2008" — and how we can dig out and head off the next one Nov 10, 2008
• High-Income Households ... some additional SCF data, relevant to Obama's SS tax options Nov 9, 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
• Bob Herbert: A Fool’s Paradise 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
• Rich in Natural Resources Oct 2, 2008
• Pulitzer Prize Winner Stresses Ethical Taxation Oct 1, 2008
• Assessing Land Values Sep 28, 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
• When I am elected President ... Sep 26, 2008
• When a mortgage rate adjusts, who gets what? (#2 in the Mortgage series) Sep 25, 2008
• Let's talk about mortgages - #1 Sep 25, 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
• A Budget is a Moral Document Sep 24, 2008
• An Election Season Thought Sep 22, 2008
• How Much Oil Do We Use? Sep 22, 2008
• Some thoughts about paying taxes... Sep 22, 2008
• Productive loans, vs non-productive ones Sep 22, 2008
• A 21st Century Georgist in the Revised Common Lectionary Sep 22, 2008
• The Big (and unnoticed) Winners in the Mortgage Crisis Sep 20, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: The Prospering Swedes Sep 18, 2008
• Finishing the Bridge Construction Ahead of Schedule ... Sep 17, 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
• Auctioning leases on our common assets: far better than giving away the asset or auctioning it once and for all Sep 4, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: Income Data and the Future of the Nation Sep 4, 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
• Port Authority to Fight Federal Proposal to Auction Airport Landing Slots - NYT Aug 26, 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
• Pragmatic Politics: Proposition 13 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
• We All Pay for Leona Helmsley’s Bequest to Dogs - NYT Jul 10, 2008
• Update on the Feoffees' tenants in Ipswich, Massachusetts Jul 8, 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
• Be a good ancestor Jun 26, 2008
• David Cay Johnston doesn't get it — yet Jun 25, 2008
• CA & FL account for nearly 1/3 of mortgages in foreclosure or 90 days delinquent Jun 19, 2008
• Thoughts for Barack Obama Jun 19, 2008
• Halving US Poverty in 10 Years Jun 19, 2008
• Luke Russert's tribute to his father: a new political party? Jun 18, 2008
• A Budget is a Moral Document Jun 16, 2008
• The Landed Gentry Jun 16, 2008
• Joseph Stiglitz: Revise Taxation to Combat Scarcity in an Age of Plenty 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
• Taxes that protect our firefighters May 28, 2008
• The Price of Land in the New York Metropolitan Area May 15, 2008
• Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: Rafe Esquith sort of sees it! Apr 28, 2008
• Why Smart People should shun the "FairTax" concept Apr 19, 2008
• Abolish All 'Taxes' - NYT Apr 17, 2008
• California's Proposition 13 and Parcel Taxes: Adding insult to injury for new property owners Apr 13, 2008
• Harvard Law, Hoping Students Will Consider Public Service, Offers Tuition Break - New York Times Mar 30, 2008
• Funding Infrastructure: A Dedicated Funding Stream Mar 29, 2008
• The Colorado Self-Sufficiency Standard, 2008 Mar 26, 2008
• Connecticut: Should Cities Use a Sales Tax? Mar 25, 2008
• Did someone yell "FIRE" sector? Bailouts for whose benefit?? Mar 19, 2008
• The 80/20 Rule — and its misapplications Mar 19, 2008
• Homeowner equity is lowest since 1945 Mar 19, 2008
• The Boom-Bust Cycle Mar 19, 2008
• FCC Raises Record $19.6 Billion In Auction of Wireless Airwaves - washingtonpost.com Mar 19, 2008
• ConservativeHome's Platform: Mark Wadsworth: Time to look at Land Value Tax? Mar 19, 2008
• Earmarks, nightlights and windfalls - Individual, or Community? Mar 19, 2008
• Working harder, making others richer Mar 16, 2008
• The Taxpayer at 72nd and Madison Mar 16, 2008
• The Basis of U.S. Poverty Statistics Mar 16, 2008
• Guns or Butter? Our Infrastructure, or Iraq's? Mar 16, 2008
• Bob Herbert's 3/11 column, Sharing the Pain: The "Near-Poor" Mar 15, 2008
• Fortunes Made in Real Estate Mar 14, 2008
• Affordable housing — for all of us. What policies promote it? Mar 14, 2008
• True Irish — and all of us Mar 14, 2008
• Closet Georgists and Georgites: Bill Buckley, and others Mar 10, 2008
• Hotel Roosevelt For Sale at $1 Billion Mar 9, 2008
• Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism? (NYT, 3/9/08) Mar 9, 2008
• Landholders, windfalls, productive effort and community revenue Mar 7, 2008
• Affordable Family Formation and Values Voters: Social Values, or Land Values? Mar 4, 2008
• Who Should Get the Land Rent? Mar 2, 2008
• Ricardo's Law: The Great Tax Clawback Scam Mar 1, 2008
• Who Benefits From This Mortgage Mess — and From the Proposed Solutions? Is there an alternative? Feb 28, 2008
• Assessments that favor the big landholders Feb 23, 2008
• The College, the Beach, and the Cottagers Feb 21, 2008
• The Feoffees, their tenants, and the Ipswich public schools Feb 20, 2008
• How do we eliminate poverty? Feb 19, 2008
• Poverty is Poison (Krugman, 2/18/08 NYT) Feb 19, 2008
• Robert Reich's NYT column "Totally Spent" Feb 15, 2008