Attached are some interesting observations on China's land issues by Wu Chen, editorial director of CFO China, which appeared in CFO magazine, August 2008: Ed...
Mark Porthouse wrote back in August: Aggregate demand cannot create a rent for a specific spot if nobody wants the spot. Aggregate demand is surely just...
... Seems true. What does not seem true is that not harming your neighbors by being more efficient is a higher cost on production. ... Assuming being sloppy is...
Y'all, Jeff here; A newspaper with a national circulation printed me again (see last Thursday's print version) on geonomics (Georgist economics). TAX LAND, NOT...
Interestingly, the rent may be low even as the land-value sales price) is high. I remember Ted mentioning some years ago that land in the Watts area (where the...
I found the following interesting. Harry **************************** http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/09/regulatory-exem.html And boingboings...
All right, already! Bill, you can remove the bits at the end, or amend as you wish. A problem opponents have with our ideas is that they don’t realize how ...
See the piece copied below from the Garden City News: Who lives in Nassau County and can put questions to Tom Suozzi about his recommendations to cap property...
It strikes me that there is something like a deregulation/reregulation cycle that it is almost impossible to do anything about. For example, after the Lehman...
"Everything should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler." -- Albert Einstein Like the shoe story, the peanut story has a certain folksy, cracker...
Hi Walter, Very good point about the regulatory loosening/tightening cycle - I think that the only way out of this is to change the type of money system that...
... The current financial crisis has an obvious geoist angle in the US housing bubble, but the regulation/deregulation talk manages to miss another crucial...
... Hi, Walt. When you try to post by replying, do you hit reply all? That's necessary for land cafe. I'll send the novel "under separate cover". While I agree...
Thanks, Jeff. I send my responses to LandCafe@yahoogroups.com. Most of them (for good or ill) don't show, however. W ... or ... this ... it. ... separate ... ...
... Absolutely! But we would surely have to allow people to create their own debt money (such as local currencies, IOUs, etc.) - unfortunately, in my opinion. ...
... Debt currently creates money because the lender is privileged to create a demand deposit (checking account balance) ex nihilo to cover the loan proceeds....
Hi Mark I'm coming at this from a slightly different perspective, and with a background in markets: I used to be a Director of the International Petroleum...
... Anybody interested in an Asian take on the $700 billion bailout, see today's Progress Report, top story, www.progress.org SMITH, Jeffery J. President,...
I'm going to have to read that a couple of times I think! The first thing I note is that some of what you say seems to bring the investor closer to the use of...
To all - A short while ago, Cay Hehner contacted me and asked if I would be willing to write a commentary for the Henry George News (published by the Henry ...
Hi! The latest exchange with libertarians has some information that might be of interest. Harry ******************** I posted a couple of things on assessment...
What $700B won't buy: a quick fix for the economy Saturday September 27, 2:45 pm ET By Michael Liedtke, AP Business Writer What the US government can't buy for...
Y'all, Jeff here; You know everybody but us suffers from that huge blind spot regarding land and rent. However, it's the most powerful sector in the economy. ...
... Is another that "real estate" (land) is the element most favored by tax breaks? Depreciation, deductions? The richest people aren't landlords anymore, but...
... Thanks, Chuck. Powerful stuff, hombre. You shoulda shared it with the list! So I will. I want to know if people feel that IP has caught up with land, or...
