Seeing the Cat

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FIRE Sector

• Saving for Retirement Nov 22, 2018
• From Case to Shiller: on the Bubble Sep 19, 2014
• Republican tax legislation contains a gem: Phase out mortgage deduction Mar 16, 2014
• Congress's gift to the Pay Day Loan Industry Oct 11, 2013
• Shiller: Too Many Graduating Seniors Go Into Finance Sep 28, 2013
• The Chicago School Sep 22, 2013
• Taxi Medallions and Rent-Seeking Jan 25, 2013
• 1909's Dangerous Subversive; Rents and Davos; the Skivers and Shirkers Jan 23, 2013
• Basic Principles of Ground Lease Agreements – Yes, a Contract! Jan 13, 2013
• The Mortgage on the Farm Dec 30, 2012
• Philosophicus, on the FIRE sector Dec 19, 2012
• Baltimore Ground Rents — some history and some principles Dec 19, 2012
• Want Less Inequality? Tax It Nov 15, 2012
• The Blue-State Income Tax Deduction Oct 31, 2012
• Our Daughters and Sons, and Opportunity Oct 24, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 5 — Spencer Oct 5, 2012
• Who Are the Job Creators? Oct 3, 2012
• On Wages, from an 1887 weekly ... and relevant in 2012 America Oct 2, 2012
• Stiglitz: "Mitt Romney’s Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 31 - John Stuart Mill Jul 31, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 27 — John Morley Jul 27, 2012
• 1886 and 2012 — what has changed? Jul 7, 2012
• Robbery Jul 1, 2012
• From "The Price of Inequality: Joseph Stiglitz on the 1 Percent Problem | Vanity Fair Jun 8, 2012
• Sagacity Apr 18, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 27 — Paine and Penn Mar 27, 2012
• The Unearned Increment, and Land Speculation Mar 25, 2012
• Developer Inks 99-Year Lease Mar 23, 2012
• The Land Questions: #35 — the land in the path of progress (1) Mar 7, 2012
• The Land Questions: #29 — Selling the Toll Roads Feb 29, 2012
• The Land Questions: #28: Coastal Homeowners Insurance Feb 28, 2012
• Earnings and findings — earned and unearned income Feb 27, 2012
• A 1938 NYT Letter to the Editor: Collecting Ground Rent Feb 16, 2012
• When Historians are Paid $25,000 a Month Jan 26, 2012
• Pine Nuts: So how are those Super PACs working for you? Jan 24, 2012
• Land Speculation Jan 19, 2012
• David Cay Johnston: Is It Is Time To Drop Income Taxes? Jan 9, 2012
• Is inequality an inevitable byproduct of growth? Dec 18, 2011
• Things to Tax Nov 28, 2011
• Congress: Trading stock on inside information? Nov 20, 2011
• I.R.S. Raises Maximum Annual 401(k) Contribution Oct 21, 2011
• Another whistle-blower, ignored by authorities ... Oct 9, 2011
• The Owners of the United States Oct 6, 2011
• Economic Indicator: Westport, CT, teardowns Oct 2, 2011
• Taking the Professor for a Ride Sep 29, 2011
• The FIRE sector Sep 19, 2011
• Stock Market Gyrations Aug 18, 2011
• Flies and horses, vines and pines ... May 3, 2011
• A Better Way to Do Housing Apr 11, 2011
• High Salaries: Are they earned? Feb 26, 2011
• Pen's Parade: do you realize we're mostly dwarves? Feb 21, 2011
• Great fortunes and the rest of us Jan 6, 2011
• David Cay Johnston: Call Their Bluff, Mr. President Nov 25, 2010
• Wages in America (2009) Nov 10, 2010
• Khosla, Sun Co-Founder, Uses Capitalism to Help Poor Oct 15, 2010
• Quarter days Sep 23, 2010
• How to Increase America's Saving Rate: Rich Americans Save Tax Cuts Instead of Spending Sep 15, 2010
• FIRE Sector Strikes Again: Resale Fees That Only Developers Could Love Sep 13, 2010
• Housing Choice - Help Today’s Owners or Future Buyers? Sep 5, 2010
• Small Investors Flee Stock Market Even as Companies Recover Aug 24, 2010
• Why were resources expunged from neo-classical economics? | Martin Wolf's Exchange Aug 17, 2010
• Borrowing on Expectations of Land Appreciation Aug 13, 2010
• Risks and Rewards, and our Best and our Brightest Aug 12, 2010
• Michael Hudson: The Road To Serfdom (2006) Aug 9, 2010
• David Stockman - Four Deformations of the Apocalypse Aug 7, 2010
• How to help the country recover from a financial earthquake » Ethical Economics » Shepheard-Walwyn Book Publishers Aug 6, 2010
• The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis, by Josh Kosman Aug 6, 2010
• Joe Stiglitz: the people are being cheated and the economy is getting poorer Jul 29, 2010
• William Allan's Landlord's Prayer Jun 18, 2010
• New plan to make millions in profits without any investment - PakTribune Jun 16, 2010
• What an Estate Looks Like to the Taxman Jun 14, 2010
• Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5, 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
• Looters in Loafers - Krugman Apr 24, 2010
• Hope rises for real financial reform - WaPo Apr 24, 2010
• Crosby: God's Gift (a poem) Apr 21, 2010
• It is time for a paradigm shift on housing Apr 9, 2010
• NYT LTE's: It Happened on Wall St. and Main St. 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
• Land in Manhattan Mar 19, 2010
• How Is The Distribution Of Wealth Determined In The United States? Mar 11, 2010
• Debt in America Feb 26, 2010
• The Top 400, and the Rest of Us Feb 22, 2010
• Looking Forward Feb 14, 2010
• The Monkeys Disgrace Feb 14, 2010
• "I Am For Men" Feb 3, 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
• Ben Stein's Farewell to C. Lowell Harriss, professor of economics - Dec. 29, 2009 Jan 22, 2010
• MLK: An edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring Jan 18, 2010
• Middle Class Wealth Jan 18, 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
• First-time homebuyers as sharecroppers Nov 9, 2009
• Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? Sep 4, 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
• High and Low Finance - 2005 Tax Break for Repatriated Funds Didn’t Work as Billed Jun 5, 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
• Magazine Preview - My Personal Credit Crisis - NYTimes.com May 14, 2009
• Gary Schilling's idea ... May 14, 2009
• The UK Rich List — some additional thoughts — with reference to America, as well May 9, 2009
• Currents & Undercurrents, Rolling Tides, and Ponds & Streams Apr 12, 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
• 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
• 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
• All those billions and trillions ... how do they relate to household wealth and household income? Feb 6, 2009
• Statistics of Income: Mortgage Interest and Real Estate Taxes Feb 5, 2009
• Who do we mean when we say "Main Street?" Feb 5, 2009
• Sharecropping on Madison Avenue, NYC Feb 3, 2009
• Federal Gifts to Landlords Feb 2, 2009
• The definition of Chutzpah Jan 29, 2009
• A Unitarian-Universalist Perspective on the Economic Crisis Jan 26, 2009
• The Landlord's OTHER Prayer Jan 17, 2009
• Landlording in NYC: "We don't pay taxes, only the little people pay taxes." Jan 3, 2009
• Auditing Madoff's investors Jan 2, 2009
• The landowner and the taxpayer Dec 29, 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
• Change.gov Dec 7, 2008
• Tom Friedman, NYT 11/26/08 - All Fall Down Nov 29, 2008
• Mason Gaffney: "The Great Crash of 2008" — and how we can dig out and head off the next one Nov 10, 2008
• Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration, and Ups & Downs in Consumer Spending Nov 7, 2008
• Wealth Concentration and the Corruption of Government Nov 4, 2008
• Americans and Mass Transit Nov 1, 2008
• When the rules are wrong, should we continue to play by them? Oct 28, 2008
• Progress, and Poverty — how do they relate? Oct 28, 2008
• NYS leasing out its assets to private sector? 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
• 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
• 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
• Living paycheck to paycheck, living bonus to bonus, and trickle-down economics Sep 23, 2008
• Some thoughts about paying taxes... Sep 22, 2008
• Productive loans, vs non-productive ones Sep 22, 2008
• Pres. Bush is worried about people being able to send their children to college Sep 20, 2008
• The Big (and unnoticed) Winners in the Mortgage Crisis Sep 20, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: The Prospering Swedes Sep 18, 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
• How do people who are created equal share resources equitably? Sep 1, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: Can You Hear Opportunity Knocking? Aug 26, 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
• Fannie & Freddie: Privatization of Gain, Socialization of Loss: Who Benefits? Jul 18, 2008
• We All Pay for Leona Helmsley’s Bequest to Dogs - NYT Jul 10, 2008
• CA & FL account for nearly 1/3 of mortgages in foreclosure or 90 days delinquent Jun 19, 2008
• Halving US Poverty in 10 Years Jun 19, 2008
• The Landed Gentry Jun 16, 2008
• Oil, Land, Water — who among us is entitled to privatize their value? Jun 8, 2008
• Are you going to be part of the problem, or part of the solution? May 10, 2008
• Still on the mountaintop: Economically rational racism Apr 4, 2008
• Is LVT the answer? It depends what the question is. Apr 1, 2008
• The Taxpayer at 72nd and Madison Apr 1, 2008
• Who Benefits From This Mortgage Mess — and From the Proposed Solutions? Is there an alternative? Mar 30, 2008
• Did someone yell "FIRE" sector? Bailouts for whose benefit?? Mar 19, 2008
• Homeowner equity is lowest since 1945 Mar 19, 2008
• The Boom-Bust Cycle Mar 19, 2008
• The Taxpayer at 72nd and Madison Mar 16, 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
• Hotel Roosevelt For Sale at $1 Billion Mar 9, 2008
• Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism? (NYT, 3/9/08) Mar 9, 2008
• Who Benefits From This Mortgage Mess — and From the Proposed Solutions? Is there an alternative? Feb 28, 2008