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• Having One's Cake, and Eating it Too Oct 14, 2017
• Land Speculation in Rural Indiana Nov 15, 2012
• That acre in Manhattan Oct 21, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 30 — Wallace Jul 30, 2012
• A Carbon Tax, Sensible for All - NYTimes.com Jul 5, 2012
• The Land Questions: #36 — the land in the path of progress (2) Mar 6, 2012
• The Land Questions: #27 — Financing a New Subway Line Feb 27, 2012
• Mother Earth, Boom-Bust, Free Trade, Dogs-in-the-Manger (landlordism), and widely-spread Prosperity Feb 23, 2012
• The Land Questions: #22 — Infrastructure and Land Values Feb 22, 2012
• The Land Questions #19 — Beaches Feb 19, 2012
• NYT Invitation to a Dialogue - A National Service Program Feb 15, 2012
• Mason Gaffney: An Alternative Reform Jan 22, 2012
• "It was there for the taking" Dec 18, 2011
• Pointers on the Single Tax Dec 2, 2011
• Things to Tax Nov 28, 2011
• Congress: Trading stock on inside information? Nov 20, 2011
• Another whistle-blower, ignored by authorities ... Oct 9, 2011
• The Owners of the United States 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
• The FIRE sector Sep 19, 2011
• High Salaries: Are they earned? Feb 26, 2011
• Pen's Parade: do you realize we're mostly dwarves? Feb 21, 2011
• Some 1927 wisdom for New Jersey in 2011 Feb 10, 2011
• Riches from real estate: cui bono? Feb 10, 2011
• Sources of great fortunes Feb 10, 2011
• Lizzie Magie's 1902 commentary on The Landlords' Game, on which Monopoly is based Jan 22, 2011
• Few Fortunes Survive Three Generations? Jan 6, 2011
• David Cay Johnston: Call Their Bluff, Mr. President Nov 25, 2010
• The November U.S. Senate Elections Oct 15, 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
• FIRE Sector Strikes Again: Resale Fees That Only Developers Could Love Sep 13, 2010
• As Stadiums Vanish, Their Debt Lives On Sep 8, 2010
• Obama to Call for $50 Billion Public Works Plan Sep 6, 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
• Michael Hudson: The Road To Serfdom (2006) Aug 9, 2010
• Public Wealth and Private Wealth 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
• The Woodpeckers' Tree System Jul 23, 2010
• Income Concentration: Piketty & Saez data through 2007 Jul 18, 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
• What an Estate Looks Like to the Taxman Jun 14, 2010
• Mother’s Eyes See Trouble With Tax Rolls May 31, 2010
• The Labour Problem ... population? or something else? May 30, 2010
• Education and Democracy May 29, 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
• Bits and Pieces from a 1914 Bi-Monthly Apr 9, 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
• 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
• Who is prospering from Prop 13? Mar 17, 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
• The Top 400, and the Rest of Us Feb 22, 2010
• America's millionaires Feb 17, 2010
• The Monkeys Disgrace Feb 14, 2010
• "I Am For Men" Feb 3, 2010
• 10 of the largest endowments in N.E. Jan 31, 2010
• Reading Lowell Harriss Jan 31, 2010
• The other Davos website Jan 30, 2010
• Why I Bother Jan 26, 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
• 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
• Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16, 2010
• I hate to disagree with Chip Case, but I must Jan 13, 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
• Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? Sep 4, 2009
• The Landed Gentry ... this time, in Pakistan 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
• Is California Over-Taxed? Jun 7, 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
• 1 in 5 Pennsylvania Families Lack Sufficient Income to Meet Their Most Modestly Defined Needs May 14, 2009
• An Hour with the BBC World Service May 11, 2009
• How Should Connecticut Pay for Maintaining I-95, I-91, I-84 and the Parkways? May 9, 2009
• The UK Rich List — some additional thoughts — with reference to America, as well May 9, 2009
• The Rich List May 5, 2009
• Council of Georgist Organizations Conference: Cleveland 2009 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
• Michael Kinsley - The Senate's Estate Tax Debate Apr 10, 2009
• About Land Value Taxation Apr 8, 2009
• Marketing the Goodness of God Feb 15, 2009
• Equal Rights Feb 14, 2009
• The ‘W’ Word, Re-engaged - ["Welfare"] 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
• Who is entitled to the economic rent on Bolivia's trove of lithium? 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
• 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
• 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
• Auditing Madoff's investors Jan 2, 2009
• Madoff Greatest Ponzi Scheme? Real Estate Magnitudes Greater — The Inspired Economist Dec 30, 2008
• The landowner and the taxpayer Dec 29, 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
• 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
• On a well-provisioned ship, how is it that 6% of us consume ~25% of the resources? Nov 10, 2008
• Mason Gaffney: "The Great Crash of 2008" — and how we can dig out and head off the next one Nov 10, 2008
• How do we reduce the demand for energy? 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
• 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
• Spreading the Wealth Oct 30, 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
• 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
• 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 III: Deciles of Wealth Distribution. Sep 28, 2008
• When I am elected President ... Sep 26, 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
• 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
• Pres. Bush is worried about people being able to send their children to college Sep 20, 2008
• The Bridge to Nowhere, and the Road to Access It Sep 19, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: The Prospering Swedes Sep 18, 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
• Valuing life, and applying fiscal stimulus, and setting us all equal Sep 2, 2008
• Downtown Nantucket: Who Should Get the Rent? Sep 2, 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
• 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
• Fannie & Freddie: Privatization of Gain, Socialization of Loss: Who Benefits? 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
• Update on the Feoffees' tenants in Ipswich, Massachusetts Jul 8, 2008
• The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers Jul 5, 2008
• Tax Analysts column: The Price of Civilization Jul 4, 2008
• Leona Helmsley’s Fortune May Go to Benefit Dogs Jul 4, 2008
• Do you own an oil company? Jul 3, 2008
• Thoughts for Barack Obama Jun 19, 2008
• Halving US Poverty in 10 Years Jun 19, 2008
• Democracy and Opportunity: A New Paradigm in Tax Equity Jun 18, 2008
• Why did Big Russ have to work two full-time jobs? Jun 15, 2008
• Joseph Stiglitz: Revise Taxation to Combat Scarcity in an Age of Plenty Jun 10, 2008
• The Landlord's Prayer Jun 10, 2008
• Alaska Oil Revenues Tally High Jun 8, 2008
• Golf Courses, Assessments, Property Taxes, and Nonmembers May 28, 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
• Why Smart People should shun the "FairTax" concept Apr 19, 2008
• How much is your home worth? Apr 18, 2008
• a tax reformer does the family 1040's Apr 18, 2008
• Contra Costa Times OpEd — End the property tax Apr 13, 2008
• Still on the mountaintop: Economically rational racism Apr 4, 2008
• Harvard Law, Hoping Students Will Consider Public Service, Offers Tuition Break - New York Times Mar 30, 2008
• Connecticut: Should Cities Use a Sales Tax? Mar 25, 2008
• Fixing Wages, and Fixing Housing Affordability — for All of Us Mar 25, 2008
• The 80/20 Rule — and its misapplications Mar 19, 2008
• The Boom-Bust Cycle Mar 19, 2008
• Earmarks, nightlights and windfalls - Individual, or Community? Mar 19, 2008