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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

Henry George & Movement 9 MIN

The Landscape #4: Wins aren’t always legislative, though legislative wins are on the horizon

By Greg Miller

Land Value Tax 10 MIN

OpenAVMKit: a Free and Open Source mass appraisal library

By Lars Doucet

Land Value Tax 6 MIN

How Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight—And How We Can Fix It

By Greg Miller

Land Value Tax 20 MIN

The curious case of Qingdao, China's land value tax

By Lars Doucet

Land Value Tax 6 MIN

DeSantis is Half-Right About Property Taxes

By Greg Miller

100 articles on the history and future of progress.

The 18-Year Pattern Predicting 2027's Market Crash

A Georgist’s reflections on YIMBYtown

What happens when America's Monopoly board fills up?

Land value return is needed, pragmatic, and achievable

The Property Tax Patchwork Impeding Our Local Governments

Valuing Land: The Simplest Viable Method

So You Want to Abolish Property Taxes

What Baltimore’s assessments taught me about cities, data, and fairness

The Landscape #4: Wins aren’t always legislative, though legislative wins are on the horizon

OpenAVMKit: a Free and Open Source mass appraisal library

How Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight—And How We Can Fix It

The curious case of Qingdao, China's land value tax

DeSantis is Half-Right About Property Taxes

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