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Featured Economics · 15 min read · May 16

The 18-Year Pattern Predicting 2027's Market Crash

Land rises 14 years, falls 4 — and has for 200 years. The cause is rising land prices becoming unsustainable for productive economic activity. The remedy has been known since 1879.

By Floyd Marinescu

The 18-Year Pattern Predicting 2027's Market Crash

Rent & the Surplus 10 MIN

100 articles on the history and future of progress.

The 18-Year Pattern Predicting 2027's Market Crash

The Housing Crisis as a Land Crisis

The Housing Ladder's Broken Promise

Landscape 6 – New Year, New Legislative Sessions and Launching the CLE Board

Will the Housing Market Crash in 2026?

Georgism through Land Leasing

Enacting Land Value Return in your hometown

Launching CivicMapper: Visualizing Land Values in 3D

The Right-wing schism over property taxes

BOOM: LVT Candidates Get Elected - Landscape #5

Book Review: The Land Trap by Mike Bird

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Champion of the Landless

Stop incentivizing surface parking lots

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