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The fact that conservatives want to protect the right of bank executives to defraud their shareholders of huge sums of money as payment for having just nearly destroyed the world economy, while at the same time attacking public employees, of all people, as some kind of overpaid rentiers, is totally ridiculous.

Matthew Yglesias » Economist: If Only Obama Had Done Things He’s Actually Done, Things Might Be Different 2010

Putin has been a real economic improvement over Yeltsin, because for all his faults he has been willing to understand that cracking down on rentiers is not necessarily socialism, and is not bad for economic growth.

Matthew Yglesias » Brink Lindsey Accuses Progressives of Peddling “Nostalgianomics” 2009

So in that sense the long-mooted euthanasia of the rentiers is the "right" prescription and will be seen as so by both the leaders of the

GlobalResearch.ca 2009

We did see the opening up of the so-called "rentiers".

Archive 2008-04-01 Michael Turton 2008

The evidence suggests that top incomes earners today are not "rentiers" deriving their incomes from past wealth but rather are "working rich," highly paid employees or new entrepreneurs who have not yet accumulated fortunes comparable to those accumulated during the Gilded Age.

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While if gini is too high \ tax code is too favorable for the wealthy, you have a rentier economy, which, when rentiers become too risk-averse, leads to declining employment and enterprise.

Matthew Yglesias » Brink Lindsey Accuses Progressives of Peddling “Nostalgianomics” 2009

In short, intellectuals have seen themselves not simply as an elite—in the passive sense in which large landowners, rentiers, or holders of various sinecures might qualify as elites—but as an anointed elite, people with a mission to lead others in one way or another to better lives. . .

Notable & Quotable 2012

Net tax producers are mostly the privately employed high earners, speculators, or high income rentiers, but even many of these benefit from govt money indirectly thru govt contracts awarded their employers, medicare and medicaid for the health sector, section 8 housing money and FHA or VA mortgages for the housing sector, etc.

Scion of Tax Consumers: My Calhounian Class Autobiography, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Why did Keynes think that the “euthanasia of the rentier class” was desirable and likely to happen in the future, when in fact rentiers and rentier-seekers have become a more prominent part of our economy, not a less prominent part?

Matthew Yglesias » Brink Lindsey Accuses Progressives of Peddling “Nostalgianomics” 2009

Namely, that entrepreneurs are usually good for economic growth/vitality, but rentiers are usually not, and that low-tax, laissez-faire policies ostensibly designed to encourage enterprise may merely enable rentierism.

Matthew Yglesias » Brink Lindsey Accuses Progressives of Peddling “Nostalgianomics” 2009