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Posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 5:33 PM
Pop it now!
Moseying through the tinny yet strident “news” from the real
estate markets that housing is on the rebound.
To the real estate industry and their flacks
in the press, we're meant to believe any increasing equity will redound to
the benefit of homeowners. Not quite.
Remember where it all started: the unholy triangle between activist
government (everybody gets a house with NO money down) crooked to lazy lenders,
and banks who wanted a piece of the action (even though they had no clue |
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Posted on Monday, July 02, 2012 4:01 PM
Two UrbanTools directors, have struck again in the editorial pages of the Financial Times and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In the June 28 edition of the financial Times, Nicholas Rosenchallenges Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz to posit a solution to the problem of growing wealth inequality and economic dysfunction in the United States. Dr. Stiglitz accurately names rent seeking as a prime culprit. Curbing the abuses of rent seeking is not just a matter of changing the law however; it is a matter of changing our tax system in the manner of the |
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Joshua Vincent: Posted on Monday, June 25, 2012 12:16 PM
Radio Activity: It's in the Air for You and Me*
Land Value Taxation is not just about tax revenue collected from property values in cities. It's also about identifying rent-seekingand monopoly privilegethat increase burdens on communities, commerce and citizens. LVT addresses these universal issues: wherever one looks for it, one can find it.
A superb example is the periodic tussles over the air, specifically, the bandwidths of the broadcast spectruminherent in nature. |
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