Reality Economics

Affordable Housing with a Socialist Mayor

It’s Spring 2026, so I must be writing about Seattle’s Katie Wilson or New York City’s Zohran Mamdani. Living in...

The U.S. Has No (And Never Could Have A) Debt Crisis

By Dr. Marty Rowland and Dr. Walter E. Perry There is total confusion on both sides of the aisle (or...

High Gasoline Prices? Oligopoly as a Safe Harbor or Pearl Harbor (depending on your point of view)

In the late 1890s the problem was monopoly, so the Sherman Anti-Trust Act1 was enacted to counter manufacturing monopolies. Were Sherman...

Zero-price Land and the Rent Moratorium

  The rent moratorium has now been extended to December 31, 2020. The solution to the problem of tenants having...

Renters: Land Value Taxation Saves You Money

  In this era of heightened awareness of social justice, it is important that we keep focused on those things...

Housing Crisis in British Columbia

In this opening post of the Henry George School of Social Science blog on Reality Economics, we focus on the...

WELCOME!

Welcome to the Henry George School of Social Science’s blog – Reality Economics – a periodic posting of commentary about...