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U.S. Housing Crisis Update: Prices, Rents Hit Historical Highs and Building Freezes – The Daily Renter share.google/IRKzFg1JOnFF...
August 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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The German Colony of Kiaochow, the Single Largest Community that only taxed Land – The Daily Renter share.google/Ds1iYD92lG0v...
July 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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(French Language Special Feature) La famine irlandaise selon Henry George: une tragédie de l’injustice foncière or "The Irish Famine According to Henry George: A Tragedy of Land Injustice"

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(French Language Special Feature) La famine irlandaise selon Henry George: une tragédie de l’injustice foncière
Editor’s note: This article is published in its entirety in French for the international audience. Contact us at dailyrenter@gmail.com if you would like to request any English translations of…
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July 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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The “One Big Beautiful Bill” is Signed into Law Marking a Legislative Victory for Rent-Seekers

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The “One Big Beautiful Bill” is Signed into Law Marking a Legislative Victory for Rent-Seekers
What’s in the “One Big Beautiful Bill”? Last week on July 4th, President Donald Trump signed a major reconciliation package dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill”. The legislation includes wide-reachi…
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July 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The Many Sources of Economic Rent – Part 5: Limited Licenses
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The Many Sources of Economic Rent – Part 5: Limited Licenses
I know it’s been a little while since the last part in this series, but for now this article will serve as a little reboot. There are still many sources of economic rent to be covered, and this ser…
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July 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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"Why are wages everywhere driven to the bare subsistence margin? Why the fuck are these families all landless, and forced to keep begging?"
The Lie of Sweatshops
‘Sell yourself for a slave-wage or starve.’ This is how the sweatshop debate is pitched to you—as an absurd false choice made to seem like common sense. Econ models, ethics panels, and …
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June 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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A Georgist Critique of Our Current Financial System, and Some Proposals for Reform – Part 1

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A Georgist Critique of Our Current Financial System, and Some Proposals for Reform – Part 1
Editor’s note: By a happy coincidence, it was discovered the authors of both parts 1 and 2 of the series share the same birthday. For this reason, the series was scheduled to start on June 9.…
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June 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Another new guest submission this time featuring Adam A of Adam's Substack
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The Earth’s Gift, and Man’s Claim
Check out this author’s other work on Adam’s Substack You keep what you make. Creation should earn absolute title. Stake a copper ridge, risk capital, drill, haul, smelt—every refined o…
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June 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Sellers Outpace Buyers by 34%, Possible Price Drop Ahead

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Sellers Outpace Buyers by 34%, Possible Price Drop Ahead
Monday Morning News Brief: The U.S. housing market is experiencing its largest imbalance on record, with nearly 500,000 more home sellers than buyers, according to a recent report by Redfin. As of …
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June 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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One Tax to Rule Them All

"This brief article will explore the scientific evidence along with the potential benefits of sourcing public revenue from rent alone."

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One Tax to Rule Them All
The Single Tax Movement was a political movement that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, following the publication of Progress and Poverty in 1879. Its core idea, evident in its nam…
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May 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The Homeless Economist is back for Tuesday Talking Trash!
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Talking Trash Tuesdays are Back!
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May 30, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Tom L Johnson, The Mayor who Made Cleveland Great: His History, His Ideas, and His Legacy

"Perhaps most importantly, Johnson implemented a new system of real estate evaluation that targeted the value of Cleveland’s non-reproducible land."

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Tom L Johnson, The Mayor who Made Cleveland Great: His History, His Ideas, and His Legacy
The articles that inspired this post for further reading: The Amazing Tom Johnson, Tom L Johnson – A Pillar of Progressivism, Tom L Johnson – Best Mayor in the US, New Life in Old Citie…
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May 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Texas House passes HB 24, a major bipartisan housing reform.

It ends a Jim Crow-era rule letting 20% of neighbors block new housing, making room for more affordable, multifamily homes.

TX has a 320K homes shortage.

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#txlege #HB24 #YIMBY #NIMBY
Texas House Declaws NIMBY Veto Power in Major Housing Reform Bill
The Texas House of Representatives has passed House Bill 24, a major housing reform measure that would reduce the power of local property owners to block new development, especially affordable and …
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May 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Indiana House Passes Property Tax Overhaul Despite Local Government Concerns

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Indiana House Passes Property Tax Overhaul Despite Local Government Concerns
The Indiana House approved a sweeping property tax reform bill Thursday, April 17 that aims to lower costs for many homeowners and businesses, while raising concerns about major funding losses for …
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April 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Farm Bankruptcies Spike Amid Rising Costs and Trade Turmoil

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Farm Bankruptcies Spike Amid Rising Costs and Trade Turmoil
Farm bankruptcies are surging across the U.S. as high input costs, falling crop prices, and mounting trade tensions push more agricultural operations into financial distress. According to Bloomberg…
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April 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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The LVT Landscape #2: Land Value Tax Hits the News

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The LVT Landscape #2: Land Value Tax Hits the News
A bill passes a state senate! And, more media coverage and interest grows for land value taxes. By Greg Miller Hello All, Welcome to the second edition of LVT Landscape, your update on the lat…
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April 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The White House is Extorting Ukraine for its Minerals: How Trump’s Past is a Sign for the Present and the Future
Trump and Zelenskyy argue in the White House, per NPR Donald Trump’s time as the president of the United States has been controversial. His repeated threatening of tariffs against several countries…
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April 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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The Homeless Economist on wealth extraction: Extractors are the oligarchy. Extractors are the deep state. Extractors are the “Elders of Zion”.
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The Three Forms of Wealth: Produced, Consumed and Extracted
Mainstream economics teaches us that the economy runs on production and consumption. Producers produce, consumers consume. One creates goods and services, the other pays for and uses them. Between …
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April 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Trump’s New Tariffs: What Renters and Workers Need to Know about “Liberation Day”

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Trump’s New Tariffs: What Renters and Workers Need to Know about “Liberation Day”
On April 2, President Trump announced a sweeping set of tariffs, setting a 10% general tariff on all imported goods to the U.S., excluding Canada and Mexico, along with targeted tariffs on addition…
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April 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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February 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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"Economists widely agree that increasing housing supply improves affordability and diversity, though opposition from some local homeowners remains strong."
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February 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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"If we implemented the land tax reform, Indiana would experience a population boom and this policy could, in time, grow Indiana cities into thriving metropolises that could compete with other Midwestern giants like Cincinatti, Detroit and Chicago."
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February 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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"The just and efficient alternative is land value tax and more broadly, taxes on natural resources or the exploitation of 'the commons'."
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February 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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"Georgists argue that the results of people’s hard work rightfully belong to their individual creators and should not be taken by the government"
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February 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Check out the new post from the Daily Renter on voting reform

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Why Georgists Should Help Lead the Sortition Movement
Elections elevate rentiers and the servants of rentiers. They always have. They always will. Even with campaign finance reform, the people most able to put their lives on hold to campaign or serve …
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February 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM