{"id":87035,"date":"2025-10-27T09:17:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=87035"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:17:57","slug":"when-all-thats-left-is-the-rentier-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/27\/when-all-thats-left-is-the-rentier-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"When all that&#8217;s left is the rentier economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/oct\/27\/private-rent-britain-record-swallows-average-wage?utm_term=68ff28a6403493bee3dbf38230cbdca2&amp;utm_campaign=BusinessToday&amp;utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;CMP=bustoday_email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian reports<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-27-at-09.14.03-550x166.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-27-at-09.14.03-550x166.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-27-at-09.14.03-768x231.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-27-at-09.14.03-600x181.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-27-at-09.14.03.png 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When all that's left is the rentier economy \u2014 and in households that rent, that is the only interest they are really working for \u2014 something has to give.<\/p>\n<p>This is completely unsustainable.<\/p>\n<p>Radical thinking is required. Steve\u00a0 Keen is doing some. So am I.<\/p>\n<p>We might need to talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Guardian reports this morning: When all that&#8217;s left is the rentier economy \u2014 and in households that rent, that is the only interest<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/27\/when-all-thats-left-is-the-rentier-economy\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,70,136,14,204,35,224,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-banking","category-city-of-london","category-corruption","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-neoliberalism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87037,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87035\/revisions\/87037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}