Land prices (AKA home prices) are down, yet two cities want some land rent to fund services. Is there enough?
Councilman wants colleges to pay city based on land value
Urban Update. Where trips are shorter, citizens are safer, own more site value, and use less fuel. No subsidies needed.
Can We Build Our Way to Reduced Carbon Emissions?
Can this continue? Households pay less tax than the benefits that governments pay, while being unemployed hurts worse.
Americans get more money back than they pay in
The so-called market has lost popular support, but what's so markety about insiders winning billions in subsidies?
Free market flawed, says survey
For most of us, jobs are the only way to claim wealth. So why do we make them scarce, asks Sr. Editor Fred Foldvary.
The Jobs Summit
Green Update. More than a third of species are pushed to extinction as our eco-concern is used to open up tax loopholes.
Species' extinction threat grows
Two stalwarts of the single-payer movement (Conyers and Kucinich) split their votes on the House bill; which was right?
Is the House Health Care Bill Better than Nothing?
Some Eastern Europeans 20 years later miss the days of material security before open elections worsened cronyism.
After the Berlin Wall, nostalgia for communism creeps back
Americans owe trillions in taxes if the US is to pay its debts. Meanwhile, the very rich bid records for some Manhattan.
CBS MarketWatch on How Much the Stimulus Has Done
Do things have value or do people value things (inc. themselves)? Sr Editor Fred Foldvary clarifies the question and answer.
Values are Subjective
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