Middleofnowhere
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Today, just 100 families own about 42 million acres across the country, or 65,000-square-miles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/us/wilks-brothers-fracking-business.html
https://www.landreport.com/americas-100-largest-landowners/
What is really interesting to me is how these people increased their land holdings by 50% during the great recession (since 2007). The greatest transfer of wealth ever. I won’t say too much more because I don’t want to get political.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/us/wilks-brothers-fracking-business.html
https://www.landreport.com/americas-100-largest-landowners/
What is really interesting to me is how these people increased their land holdings by 50% during the great recession (since 2007). The greatest transfer of wealth ever. I won’t say too much more because I don’t want to get political.