Seeing the Cat

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Income Concentration

• Harry Gunnison Brown, on privilege Nov 11, 2015
• Who Gets the Land Rent, and Why: Two NYC Stories Nov 9, 2014
• Some thoughts about Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" Aug 8, 2014
• George Bernard Shaw: 1885 speech on private property and privilege Nov 3, 2013
• The Charitable-Industrial Complex Jul 27, 2013
• a response to Joe Stiglitz's "A Tax System Stacked Against the 99 Percent" Apr 18, 2013
• Is "growing the pie" sufficient? Feb 17, 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 9 — Rousseau Jan 9, 2013
• The Menace of Plutocracy — an 1889 Thomas Shearman speech Jan 7, 2013
• Shearman: The Distribution of Wealth, Part I (1887) Jan 7, 2013
• Shearman: The Distribution of Wealth, Part II (1887) Jan 7, 2013
• Shearman: The Distribution of Wealth, Part III (1887) Jan 7, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 1 — Hildebrand - Pope Gregory the Great Jan 1, 2013
• The Mortgage on the Farm Dec 30, 2012
• Want Less Inequality? Tax It Nov 15, 2012
• Individual Account Retirement Plans: An Analysis of the 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances | EBRI Oct 27, 2012
• Harpers: Monopoly is Theft Oct 25, 2012
• Our Daughters and Sons, and Opportunity Oct 24, 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 4 — Bagehot Oct 4, 2012
• Who Are the Job Creators? Oct 3, 2012
• The Church(es) in Politics Sep 15, 2012
• One's "Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
• Stiglitz: "Mitt Romney’s Fair Share" Sep 4, 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 27 — John Morley Jul 27, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 9 — anonymous — Chants of Labor Jul 9, 2012
• To make America more egalitarian, tax the value of land Jun 28, 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: June 9 — John Stuart Mill Jun 9, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 12 — Adam Smith May 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 23 — Simon Newcomb Apr 23, 2012
• Sagacity Apr 18, 2012
• Appropriating the Gifts of Nature Apr 13, 2012
• The Unearned Increment — Unearned By Whom?? Earned by Whom? Mar 25, 2012
• Earnings and findings — earned and unearned income Feb 27, 2012
• Brief Statement of Single Tax Philosophy Feb 26, 2012
• Downton Abbey: The Landed Gentry Feb 20, 2012
• The Land Questions #18 — Gambling Feb 18, 2012
• FDR on revenue and spending Jan 20, 2012
• Don’t Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself. - NYTimes.com Dec 26, 2011
• "It was there for the taking" Dec 18, 2011
• Is inequality an inevitable byproduct of growth? Dec 18, 2011
• Pointers on the Single Tax Dec 2, 2011
• Things to Tax Nov 28, 2011
• Rent and the Cost of War Nov 24, 2011
• Lucy and the Football Nov 23, 2011
• Three ways to combat rising inequality Nov 22, 2011
• The mathematical law that shows why wealth flows to the 1% Nov 18, 2011
• Who are the Criminals? — Henry George, Jr., 1901 Nov 4, 2011
• How Wealth Concentrates: The Dartmouth College Case Decision Nov 1, 2011
• CBO - Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007 Oct 26, 2011
• Wealth Concentration data Oct 16, 2011
• Forget 9-9-9. Here’s a Simple Plan: 1 Oct 15, 2011
• 0-0-0-0-100 Oct 15, 2011
• The Owners of the United States Oct 6, 2011
• Thomas G. Shearman: Henry George's 'Mistakes' Oct 6, 2011
• Economic Indicator: Westport, CT, teardowns Oct 2, 2011
• The FIRE sector Sep 19, 2011
• Robert Reich: Jobs Will Follow a Strengthening of the Middle Class Sep 18, 2011
• High Salaries: Are they earned? Feb 26, 2011
• Pen's Parade: do you realize we're mostly dwarves? Feb 21, 2011
• Thinking about taxes and jobs Feb 16, 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
• Few Fortunes Survive Three Generations? Jan 6, 2011
• 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
• God bless the child that's got his own Nov 13, 2010
• Wages in America (2009) Nov 10, 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
• Ben Stein's Money 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
• As Stadiums Vanish, Their Debt Lives On Sep 8, 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
• 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
• Joe Stiglitz: the people are being cheated and the economy is getting poorer Jul 29, 2010
• The Rich Catch Everyone Else’s Cutback Fever Jul 22, 2010
• Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the US, updated to 2008 - Emmanuel Saez Jul 21, 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 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
• 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
• 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: 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
• 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
• Concentration of Income: NYC Mar 15, 2010
• How Is The Distribution Of Wealth Determined In The United States? Mar 11, 2010
• Is "chasing the bad guys" the highest good? 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
• Land, labor and capital: cleaning up after the snow storm 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
• "I Am For Men" Feb 3, 2010
• 10 of the largest endowments in N.E. Jan 31, 2010
• "The End of Poverty? Think Again" Jan 31, 2010
• The other Davos website Jan 30, 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
• Another Retirement Study Nov 1, 2009
• Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2008 Nov 1, 2009
• Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? Sep 4, 2009
• The Landed Gentry ... this time, in Pakistan Aug 18, 2009
• Opportunities, Privilege, Rent — and a better way to fund our common spending Jul 22, 2009
• The Just-Getting-By Cost of Living in West Virginia in 2009 for young families Jun 24, 2009
• Is California Over-Taxed? Jun 7, 2009
• High and Low Finance - 2005 Tax Break for Repatriated Funds Didn’t Work as Billed Jun 5, 2009
• Getting By in Oregon: How Much Does It Take? Jun 3, 2009
• Thou shalt not suffer thyself or anybody else to be stolen from May 23, 2009
• Land and Freedom May 23, 2009
• Carpe Diem! Remembering Bob Drake, of Chicago May 14, 2009
• 1 in 5 Pennsylvania Families Lack Sufficient Income to Meet Their Most Modestly Defined Needs May 14, 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 Rich List: Easy Come, Easy Go? 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
• Pirates threatening revenge ... Apr 13, 2009
• Currents & Undercurrents, Rolling Tides, and Ponds & Streams Apr 12, 2009
• Michael Kinsley - The Senate's Estate Tax Debate Apr 10, 2009
• Payroll Taxes Apr 8, 2009
• CBO data: Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates for 2005 and 2006 Apr 7, 2009
• Just What is Home Equity? Feb 25, 2009
• Child Labor in 1906; Child Poverty in 2009 Feb 15, 2009
• Marketing the Goodness of God Feb 15, 2009
• How Big Salaries Are "Earned" Feb 14, 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
• Sharecropping on Madison Avenue, NYC Feb 3, 2009
• Federal Gifts to Landlords Feb 2, 2009
• Relative Child Poverty, Income Inequality, Wealth, and Health Jan 28, 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
• The Landlord's OTHER Prayer Jan 17, 2009
• Auditing Madoff's investors Jan 2, 2009
• The landowner and the taxpayer Dec 29, 2008
• Change.gov Dec 7, 2008
• Bailing out the Private Equity crowd Dec 5, 2008
• Time to Tackle US Poverty? Dec 3, 2008
• On a well-provisioned ship, how is it that 6% of us consume ~25% of the resources? Nov 10, 2008
• How do we reduce the demand for energy? Nov 10, 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
• Wealth Concentration and the Corruption of Government Nov 4, 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
• Bob Herbert: A Fool’s Paradise Oct 28, 2008
• Spreading the Wealth: Some kinds of wealth OUGHT to be spread! Oct 28, 2008
• We've made a secular religion of homeownership Oct 15, 2008
• Rich in Natural Resources Oct 2, 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
• 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