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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

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100 articles on the history and future of progress.

The 18-Year Pattern Predicting 2027's Market Crash

Liberalism Ascending

Creation and Confiscation of Currency

How Ron Paul could Win the Presidency in 2008

The Subprime Mortgage Freeze

The Great Inflation of 2009

How to Extirpate Poverty

Public Works — the Bridge to Economic Nowhere

Free Banking Explained

How the Republican Party can be Resurrected

To Subsidize is to Tax

Why the Crash of 2008 was not a Market Failure

Krugman’s 2008 Economics Nobel Prize

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