The surprising economics of the world’s most valuable asset
Podcast: The New Bazaar (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The surprising economics of the world’s most valuable assetPub date: 2025-11-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMike Bird, the Wall Street editor of The Economist, joins Cardiff to discuss his new book, The Land Trap: A New History of the World’s Oldest Asset.By one estimate, the value of land makes up roughly a third of all the wealth in the entire world. Add the houses and commercial buildings on top of the land and the total value is almost two-thirds. And…
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