Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Foreword

A Pandemic Preface

A Nation’s Nature – Worth Counting

Taboo Tabulation

But What It’s Done For Us Lately?

Both the Measure and the Measuring – Outrageous

Is Trillion the New Billion?

A Magic Number?

Hindering the Counting

Modern “Man” Can’t See the Land All the doo-dah day

Unfamiliar Can Be Invisible

Numbness Feels So Good

Why Won’t Watchdogs Bark?

Knowledge Worth Knowing

Power to See Deeper, Broader

Knowing What Spending Spurs

Knowledge That Keeps on Yielding

Seek Answers vs Repeat Stock Phrases

Bury or Praise Rent?

It’s All Academic

Housing Reformers See Site Rent

Official Stamp of Insignificance

Fig Leaf or Figure?

Our Ignorance Is Whose Bliss?

Curiosity Chills the Chat

Economists Don’t Have It Easy

What We Don’t Know Does Hurt Us

Missing Link Can De-Mystify Economies

Tremendous Turf

Eyes on the Prize

The Call of the Riled

Who Has Soundproof Earwax?

Who’ll Take This Watch?

Our Turn With the Torch

Better the Devil We Know – Really?

Professionals Wonder Elsewhere

Time for an Encore?

Data – Quantity, Lots; Quality, Well …

A Professional Wonders Why

Too Much of a Good Thing?

Professionals – More Cautious Than Curious

Media Report Official Land Values

Top 10 Articles

Help Is on the Way

Money Talks … And Silences?

“Rentention” – Hard Habit to Break

Forbidden Knowledge

Knowledge Appeals to Privilege

Compliant Economists

Counterfeit Nobel

Banks, The Collector for Rentiers

Banks – Owners and Ownees

Banks – Ownees and Owners

The Real State is Real Estate

Silence Is Gold-ridden – The Spoils of the Spoiled

Scholars Guess: How Many $ In This Market?

Straining at the Leash

The Road to Academic Answers

Who Tallies the Money We Spend for the Nature We Use?

Mining Numbers at Official Stockpiles

Peering into the Experts’ Sources

Top 10 Agencies: Looking for Rent in Mostly Wrong Places

Agencies Reporting Housing+

Land: the More Pristine, the Less Pricey

“Economic Land” Can Be Wet, Breezy, Even Ethereal

Top 10 Public Talliers of Public Lands

Congressional Attempts – More Data Vacuum

Do Agencies Check Their Sources?

5 Best Private Tallies

Even a World Banker Rips Other Economists

Both Sides Share the Same Blind spot

What’d They Say?

Jargon Justifiable?

Clarity, a Sine Qua Non

The US Fed Also Rips Official US Stats

Rent-less Wonders

Figures for Land: From a Fun House?

Other Totals Are Iffy But At Least Exist

Casting Pearls Before Swains of Data

They Count Something – But What?

Replacement Cost? Land Costs Zero!

Political Pressure

Assessing Accurately

Lay Down the Gauntlet

Colluding Or Not – They Censor Rents

Just Like Censorship

Nothing Personal

True Total Trillions Yanks Spend on Land

He Asked for It

He’s Getting Warm

Filling In the Blanks

From Price to Rent

Geonomists Take Their Turns

Getting Personal

How Did an Old Guard Treat a Young Upstart?

More Rent, Fewer Admirers?

Admiration – a Two-Way Street

More Rent on the Horizon

Manmade Utilities Spout Natural Rent

Utilities Generate Rent, Too

Utilities As Natural

Enclosures of Common Revenue

Worth of Quasi-Land Monopolies

Monopolies Fight Progress

Eco-librium Repatriates Rents

Myopic Grasshoppers Depress the Earth

“Leaders” Limit Liability

Purchase Limited Liability

Farsighted Ants Enrich the Earth

Costs of Damaging Land

Cars & the Culmination of Costs

Lose Losses, Gain Greater Rents

Staking Claims on Field of Knowledge

No Trespassing on Fields of Knowledge

From Excluding to Depriving

Go into Business

P&C Command Dollars

Scouting Ahead of the Curve Strains Ties

Working Without a Net

Academics Criticize Bogeyman

Critics of Finance Overlook Funds

Regulation or an Ounce of Prevention?

Howl Until Heard

The Federal Reserve – The Vault of the Stat?

In the Belly of the Fed

The Fed Inflates

Political Tentacles

Spawn of Jekyll Island

Our Military at Their Beck-and-Call

Cracking the Fed

Porcelain Economics: Look, Don’t Touch

They Can Laugh, As They Should

Wrongheaded and Just Plain Wrong

The Gaping Hole

Field of Brooms: under the rug goes rent

Students Beg for Relevance

Insiders Bemoan No Usefulness

Check Your Ethics at the Door

All Creek, No Paddle?

A Sound Alternative Left in Limbo

Everybody Guarded

Geonomists – Let There Be Light

A Generation Ready?

As Crises Climax, Why Tally Rents?

Culling All Solutions

Eco-librium Upended

Housing Out of Reach

Recurring Recession

Uncle Sam Bankrupt

1% – Out of Control

Crisis = Opportunity? At All?

Do What Others Won’t? Nail Down Rent?

Now what? Quit, or Keep at It?

Can’t Count on the Counters

Can’t Count on the Reformers

Can Count on a Gadfly

An Endgame Strategy

New Hope from New Statisticians, Inc.(s)

Outside-the-Boxers Demand & Supply True Stats

Potential Suppliers – Firms for Reformed Figures

Modern Enclosers Hinder Counting the Rent

Fiefdoms for Freehold Only

Shared Spaces – Zilch

No Shared Power, Either, Thank You

If Lowballing Inputs, How Much Is Rent?

For the Sake of Argument, Surrender

Trade Logic for Convention?

Firms Offer a Rent Total – For a Price

Answers For Sale

Money Makes the Ground Get Counted

Movements Find a Piece to Their Puzzle

Activists Fry Fish Upstream?

Green Over Grey

Jobs Chase Workers

Currency Crafters

Losing Dissonance, Making Common Cause

People Power to De-classify Deep Data?

Rulers Boss Bureaucrats

For Us: Freedom of Information Act

Go Over Their Heads

Leading the Way

The Greatest Stat on Earth: Its Real Worth

Lax vs. Logical

Why Price Bias?

Value Exceeds Price

Flowing to a Total

A Figure for a New Future

There’s a New Indicator in Town: It’s Ground

Shockingly Grand

Rebut but Again

Grey Over Green

Federal Forecast

Universal Success

Sharpening the Indicator

Fund Community with Land Rents?

Reap as Y’all Sow

Just Emote “No”

Morality or Normalcy Bias?

Motivated Owners Up the Output

Surplus – A Way to Remake the World?

Dividends for Everyone?

Emotional Antis –

Morality & Norms, Old & New

Prices Precise, Choices Efficient

Society Shifting toward Sharing?

$10K Per Month, Free – Is That Insane?

Spend Rent, Grow Rent

Seven Ways Rent Grows

I. Safe Neighborhoods

II. Redevelopment

III. Transportation

IVa. Popular Uprising

IVb. Popular Uprising Justified by Four Deficiencies

IVc. Popular Uprising Could Redirect Revenue

VII. Cost of Living

The Excess that Keeps on Exceeding

Celebrate Knowing Rent with a Powwow

Potlatch Party Time

Catch up to Indians

Manhattan For Beads

Counting Celebrates a New Worldview

Let Times Square Celebrate a New High

We Conclude …

What’s Accomplished