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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 5 MIN

100 articles on the history and future of progress.

The 18-Year Pattern Predicting 2027's Market Crash

The Corn is as High as the Subsidy's Aye

Corruption in Tapping the Oil Rent

Real Estate Cycle on Schedule as Manufacturing Falls

War on Drugs Expands to Catnip

Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

Plan C for Iraq

Government Financing of Political Campaigns

Population U.S.A. 300 Million

The U.S. Government's Power to Confiscate

U.S. Mint Seeks Monopoly

The Austrian School of Economics

The Story of Dancing Matilda

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