rentier

All modern rentier wealth is generated through these means.

Now the US has become a finance/rentier economy it's great to see young people questioning business propaganda.

The more that item, or information, or property is worth to the market, the greater rent/profit the rentier can extract.

We need something like the 2008 housing crash with no recovery-- to unshackle the real economy from the rentier asset economy.

In a world with only one currency you end up with the rentier class that has money capturing all economic productivity.

Then this bubble popped and all that money ran into real estate and other rentier assets, inflating these to sometimes ridiculous degrees.

Even if all else failed it might well be better to bite the rentier tax once than to live with them forever.

Rent controls don't appear in a vacuum, they are a response to the unfolding human tragedies of rentier exploitation that harm actual people.

Regulation can create rentier institutions like the taxi medallion system[1] alongside PG&E.

It's a rentier paradise run for the benefit of The City.

Thank you for the comment about the rentier class and inheritance.

Savings are fundamentally antidemocratic; unconstrained savings inevitably result in the capture of economic output by a rentier class, destroying productivity and entrenching a permanent aristocracy.

Fukuyama's "end of history" theory is, in many respects, apologetics for rentier capitalism.

For instance, he doesn't even mention the fact that government is, almost by definition, either the largest or second largest rentier in modern America (their main competitor being "to-big-to-fail" financial institutions).

I see the sort of thing in this article referred to as "rentier capitalism", although it's generally meant to be derogatory; a way of marking it out from the beneficial form of capitalism.

On the off-chance that you're genuinely interested in the relations between regulatory capture, extreme concentrations of wealth, and the proliferation of rentier economies, I can strongly recommend "Why Nations Fail" by MIT's Daron Acemoglu.

Rentier capitalism (extratcing rents) is the major driver of how the rich makes money in the states.