Parking lots as economic drains(progressandpoverty.substack.com)

124 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 145 comments

Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight–and How We Can Fix It(progressandpoverty.substack.com)

53 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 59 comments

The $14 Burrito: Why San Francisco Inflation Feels Higher Than 2.5%(foglinesf.com)

13 points by KothuRoti 9 months ago | 19 comments

Valuing Land: The Simplest Viable Method(progressandpoverty.substack.com)

37 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 37 comments

How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's(progressandpoverty.substack.com)

99 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 87 comments

California homeowners to fund half of high-risk insurer's $1B 'bailout'(calmatters.org)

18 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 11 comments

Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor Are Further Removed from Prosperity(lusopt2016.blogspot.com)

6 points by inandout 23 hours ago | 0 comments

A Portuguese-language blog post discussing why global economic inequality between rich and poor keeps widening, citing technology, cost of living, and billionaire wealth.

All foster kids in California can now attend any state college for free(themessenger.com)

661 points by pessimizer 3 years ago | 507 comments

News article reporting that California's budget under Gov. Newsom covers tuition, room and board for foster youth at any state university or community college.

Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals(ft.com)

447 points by kvee 1 year ago | 2007 comments

Financial Times article examining why the US economy is outperforming other major economies, shown behind a subscription paywall.

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon(wilsoniumite.com)

466 points by Wilsoniumite 8 months ago | 597 comments

A personal blog post revisiting the author's failed prediction of a 2025 US economic crash and arguing a crash may still be coming, using data such as FRED unemployment charts.

Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value(economist.com)

413 points by lxm 3 years ago | 728 comments

An Economist article on Detroit's proposal to become the first big US city to adopt a land value tax to reduce blight.

California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years(latimes.com)

420 points by thnaks 9 months ago | 215 comments

Los Angeles Times article reporting that California is free of all drought and abnormal dryness for the first time in 25 years, and explaining the turnaround.