Re: Henry George mentioned in Wash Post op-ed

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:42:28 GMT

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:16:27 GMT, "sinister" <sinister@nospam.invalid>
wrote:

><royls@telus.net> wrote in message news:422234e7.15827204@news.telus.net...
>> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:52:34 GMT, "sinister" <sinister@nospam.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Excerpted from "Bye-Bye, Housing Boom," By Michael Kinsley,
>>
>> Has he been fired yet?
>
>I assume you've heard of him before. Pretty clever. Now he's the editorial
>page editor of the LA Times. So to be fired he'd have to be fired by
>someone pretty high up.

If he keeps writing or printing accurate, informative material about
land issues, he certainly will be.

>>>_The Washington
>>>Post_, Sunday, February 27, 2005. URL:
>>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54743-2005Feb25.html
>>>(registration required):
>>>
>>>--------------begin excerpt----------------
>>>Let's step back a moment. All the housing in the United States is worth
>>>about $14 trillion.
>>
>> ?? Or with 120M housing units, about $115K per dwelling? Don't
>> _think_ so. How many of the houses and condos in your local listings
>> are selling for that much? How many are selling for double or _more_
>> that much? Wouldn't _$20T_ be a more realistic estimate?
>
>Maybe. We should give him points for trying.

Agreed.

-- Roy L

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