It's always good to know your roots, to know what you're up against, to know what to keep and what to change.

As long as land is not in the commons, but instead privately owned — thus requiring financing—banks will increasingly become more powerful until one day, they will rule us all.

One reason why government planning and control so often fail is that much of the economy is hidden from view.

The government subsidy of land values is not sustainable, as it has always created a boom followed by a bust.

Economics classes are turning to videos, including songs and stories, for lessons, so here is a script for a video on the margin of production.

A song about the impending mortgage crisis

Politicians only address symptoms when it's the system we need to fix

We can raise wages and reduce rent by avoiding the under-use of land, moving the workers back to more productive land

Creating money not based on gold, manipulation and inflation rather than the natural interest rate, and land-value subsidies, all skew and distort prices and profits.

As long as we punish labor with taxes and restrictions, and reward land speculators with subsidies, we will always have periodic economic booms and crashes

Unfortunately, Krugman has used his forum to promote the status-quo big-government welfare-state programs that have been the problem rather than the solution.

The real reason for favors to mortgage holders

Somehow, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did not understand the real estate cycle and that their own institutions would make the recession that much more severe

The six-month truce between the Israeli government and the Hamas chiefs in Gaza offers opportunities which if not fulfilled could lead to greater dangers.

Even economists can separate out the value of buildings

As in previous real estate booms, house builders overbuilt in the hot markets. Why don’t they learn? Because they expect a bailout.

A Palestinian state is inevitable, and it is also impossible for it to exist without an association with Israel.

While the U.N. declares land rights to indigenous people, Anglo conquerors are afraid they may have to forfeit land

In June 2007, Florida's governor signed into law a ballot measure that would enact a big reduction in the state's property taxes.

Russia is trying to claim what once was owned by nobody and used only by indigenous hunters. Might there be a better way to satisfy everyone's interests?