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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 6 MIN

100 articles on the history and future of progress.

The 18-Year Pattern Predicting 2027's Market Crash

The Real Lessons in Greek for Leftists

Jeffery J. Smith’s Law of Prime Rent

Trickle-Down Economics

Trickle Up? Trickle Down? Or Should Surplus Trickle Out?

The Shape of Rent

The Coming Water Catastrophes

An Open Letter to Transition Towns

The Corruption of Economics

Capitalism Defined and Explained

Mason Gaffney Predicted the China Crash

Downtowns: the Interior Frontier

“We are all Greeks”

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