Archive for October, 2008

Progress & Poverty audio is available!

Bob Drake’s abridged and modernized version of Progress & Poverty is now available in an audio version.  Free downloads of the mp3′s, with financial contributions very much appreciated.

Everybody protects her rent

Everyone who gets to privately collect some of the rent wants to protect his take.  So we read, in the Sept-Oct issue of Progress, that among the Exxon Valdez plaintiffs were “[f]ishermen who held $300,000 commercial fishing permits for salmon and/or herring fisheries at the time of the spill [who] now own pieces of paper worth around 10% of their former value.”

Boom Bust Bailout

Henry George had a lot to say about economic meltdowns, and it’s time to review.

What causes a meltdown?

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