Pumping out dollars, because they don't see social surplus, cheapens money and strengthens elites.

When little and not knowing Pig Latin, you always wanted to understand what others kids were saying. Here's what MMTists are saying.

A great idea that society needs should be popular. Why isn't it? How can it become so?

Fill in the blindspot re social surplus, its role in economies and politics; you'll never see mortgages the same way again.

As fewer can afford a home, might they nudge the experts to tally up what everyone pays to live where they love?

On Publicizing Public Land Records. (Final excerpt)

Farmland assessment: Amenity values, expected rising cash flows, tax shelter values, mineral rights, and entitlement values.

Major biases in land assessment: Radio spectrum, rights of way, and severed property.

Major biases in land assessment: Tax exempt land, minerals, and water.

Major biases in land assessment: Slow-turning classes of property, different assessment methods, and preferential assessment.

Major biases in land assessment: Regressive assessment and raw land.

The many important functions and implications of land data: Forecasting from past cycles, finding the real interest rate, assessment discrimination, and planning public works.

The many important functions and implications of land data: Land as a credit base, raising consciousness of latent values, and protecting federal revenues.

The many important functions and implications of land data: concentrated holding and property taxation.

Alvin Johnson, an American economist at several universities, denigrated the logic and evidence for land-value taxation in an anti-scholarly manner.

Many people seek clarification of economic definitions -- and it's no wonder, for the glossaries offered in most Economics courses aren't the least bit consistent or clear.

An investigator takes two steps forward, one back, then steps where?

People have bigger problems than measuring the “rents”. Or do they?

Until somebody measures the worth of Earth, many other issues must remain unresolved.

The principles of a good tax system point to land value taxation as optimal