Seeing the Cat

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Reaping What Others Sow

• "Proputty" — A Lecturette in Rhyme, by J. W. Bengough Jul 4, 2020
• John Farrell, The Philosophy of the Single Tax, Part VIII: Monopoly, and How It Works Jul 9, 2018
• Another Wise LTE, from 1932 Oct 14, 2017
• The Henry George Idea in One Hundred Words Feb 14, 2016
• 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
• Shiller: Too Many Graduating Seniors Go Into Finance Sep 28, 2013
• The Charitable-Industrial Complex Jul 27, 2013
• Taxi Medallions and Rent-Seeking Jan 25, 2013
• 1909's Dangerous Subversive; Rents and Davos; the Skivers and Shirkers Jan 23, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 14 — Rousseau Jan 14, 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 Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 7 — Renan Jan 7, 2013
• Hugh Pentecost, on the connection between crime and poverty Jan 6, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 6 — Shakespeare Jan 6, 2013
• Why don't we tax away economic rent instead of taxing production? Dec 29, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 27 — Cardinal Manning Dec 27, 2012
• Henry George's chapter in McNeill's "The Labor Movement: The Problem of Today" (1887) Dec 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 16 — Grant Allen Dec 16, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 20 — Isaiah Nov 20, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 19 — Rawlinson Nov 19, 2012
• Want Less Inequality? Tax It Nov 15, 2012
• Land Speculation in Rural Indiana Nov 15, 2012
• Corn Belt Farmland: The Newest Real Estate Bubble? : NPR Nov 13, 2012
• Chrystia Freeland: Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else Oct 21, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 26 — Lowell Sep 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 21 — Shelley Sep 21, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 20 — Wagner Sep 20, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 16 — Marmontel and Scott Sep 16, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 13 — Winstanley Sep 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 12 — Grant Allen Sep 12, 2012
• Stiglitz: "Mitt Romney’s Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
• A Right-to-Life Platform — 125 years old Aug 22, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 7 — Thorold Rogers and Ede Aug 7, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 4 — Adam Smith Aug 4, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 3 — Cairnes Aug 3, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 2 — Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes Aug 2, 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
• What we propose — and the alternative Jul 14, 2012
• Bankrupt in California Jul 14, 2012
• NYT 99 years ago ... a "Lower Rents" bill in Albany Jun 27, 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: June 13 — Paine and Marmontel Jun 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 9 — John Stuart Mill Jun 9, 2012
• An Address to the Churches (1899) May 27, 2012
• Henry George's teaching in a nutshell May 26, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 12 — Adam Smith May 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 11 — Gibbon May 11, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 30 — Henry George Apr 30, 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: March 31 — Adam Smith Mar 31, 2012
• The Unearned Increment — Unearned By Whom?? Earned by Whom? Mar 25, 2012
• Developer Inks 99-Year Lease Mar 23, 2012
• Bob Andelson: The Earth is the Lord's! 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: #36 — the land in the path of progress (2) Mar 6, 2012
• The Land Questions: #29 — Selling the Toll Roads Feb 29, 2012
• Earnings and findings — earned and unearned income Feb 27, 2012
• The Land Questions: #27 — Financing a New Subway Line Feb 27, 2012
• Another motto: Save the Rent for Society Feb 26, 2012
• Mother Earth, Boom-Bust, Free Trade, Dogs-in-the-Manger (landlordism), and widely-spread Prosperity Feb 23, 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
• The Land Questions #19 — Beaches Feb 19, 2012
• The Land Questions: #17 — Middle East Feb 17, 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: #14 — Personal Economic Security Feb 14, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: February 13 — Edward Carpenter Feb 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: February 12 — Froude Feb 12, 2012
• Location, Location, Location! Feb 7, 2012
• Mason Gaffney: An Alternative Reform Jan 22, 2012
• The Opposition to Land Value Taxation Jan 22, 2012
• "It was there for the taking" Dec 18, 2011
• 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
• 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
• Nein nein nein to the 9-9-9 tax plan - Fred Foldvary Oct 18, 2011
• Wealth Concentration data Oct 16, 2011
• Forget 9-9-9. Here’s a Simple Plan: 1 Oct 15, 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
• What's an intact tire and your car's alignment worth to you, per year? Sep 25, 2011
• The FIRE sector Sep 19, 2011
• Taxing work does not create ... Sep 4, 2011
• Stock Market Gyrations Aug 18, 2011
• The Population-Value of Natural Resources Jul 14, 2011
• Why they might hate us May 6, 2011
• Flies and horses, vines and pines ... May 3, 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
• What should we tax? Feb 10, 2011
• Some 1927 wisdom for New Jersey in 2011 Feb 10, 2011
• Public Ownership of essential utilities Feb 10, 2011
• Sharing the burden of the cost of providing public services 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
• Great fortunes and the rest of us Jan 6, 2011
• The New Nobility Jan 6, 2011
• Few Fortunes Survive Three Generations? Jan 6, 2011
• 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
• Thy Kingdom Come! Nov 14, 2010
• Additional thoughts on Norton and Ariely's paper Nov 14, 2010
• Wages in America (2009) Nov 10, 2010
• Khosla, Sun Co-Founder, Uses Capitalism to Help Poor 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
• Krugman: Fear and Favor Oct 4, 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
• Housing Choice - Help Today’s Owners or Future Buyers? Sep 5, 2010
• How to End the Great Recession Sep 5, 2010
• Earned Income: Public and Private Aug 29, 2010
• Suburban Sprawl and the Decline of Social Capital Aug 26, 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
• 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
• The Woodpeckers' Tree System Jul 23, 2010
• Income Concentration: Piketty & Saez data through 2007 Jul 18, 2010
• Wealth concentration in China exceeds US Jul 7, 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
• 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
• Paying for Transportation Infrastructure is simple Jun 5, 2010
• Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5, 2010
• Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration and the Economy May 30, 2010
• Which Georgist first called LVT the "least bad" tax? May 13, 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
• Crosby: Democracy Apr 21, 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
• Moses Mar 30, 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
• 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
• 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
• Land, labor and capital: cleaning up after the snow storm Feb 14, 2010