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Summary
Phil’s postcard for new subscribers on “seeing the cat” (Georgist concept). Recommended learning path: (1) Watch the Neil Bendigo regional session recording; (2) Read Akhil’s The Secret Wealth Advantage; (3) Read Phil’s The Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking from the back forward (start at Chapter 22); (4) Read The Corruption of Economics (Gaffney/Harrison); (5) The Power in the Land (Fred Harrison, 1983 — forecast 1989 top 7 years in advance); (6) Henry George. Key: understand that economics has been corrupted by removing land from the equation.
Key Claims
- Fred Harrison’s The Power in the Land (1983) accurately forecast the 1989 property top 7 years in advance. — confidence: high
- Reading The Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking from the back forward (Chapter 22 first) is recommended. — confidence: high
- Milton Friedman called Henry George’s free trade treatise the greatest ever written on the topic. — confidence: high
- “Seeing the cat” = the moment when land’s role in economics becomes permanently visible. — confidence: high