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Erie, Pennsylvania: Missteps and Next Steps (Part 1)

This saga is slowly unfolding in Erie, Pennsylvania. By slow, we mean since 1960. Continue reading to see how this...

What’s Increasing Dramatically in Somalia?

“Every Somali wants to live in Mogadishu. Until that changes, I don’t see anything changing. Prices will keep going up”...

A Canberra for the 21st Century

A New Capital Is Coming to Indonesia. Will Nusantara be Funded with Land Value Capture? Jakarta, Indonesia, has been a...

Manchester Waits in the Wings

When will people stop thinking that London is the ne plus ultra of the United Kingdom? London is unaffordable. It swoons over its exile...

A Different Type of Land Value Tax In the Republic of Ireland

Once Ireland was a rural and poverty-stricken land. Hundreds of years of British rule by a landed aristocracy sucked rent, food,...

Tomatoes, Robots, Civilization, and Farm Fresh Equity

  Introduction Today I ate a tomato. Yet, this was not just any tomato. I had picked this one moments...

The “Unland Land” Around Us

  Introduction “You are blocking my sun, dude!” This was a common refrain back in the SoCal poolside of my...

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...