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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

Economics 4 MIN

100 articles on the history and future of progress.

The 18-Year Pattern Predicting 2027's Market Crash

Hobbes and Kaldor on Taxing Expenditure

What’s the Cost of America?

Could a 137 Year-Old Equation Explain the Financial Collapse?

When to Preserve? When to Develop?

Moral Realism

Real Estate 4 Ransom

Wildlife Conservation

Make Prices Reward “Green” Choices

The Game of Monopoly versus Equopoly

City Density—Friend of Trip Efficiency

Oshan Cook: A Call for Presidential Clemency

Buildings Waste Energy. But We Tax’em!

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