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> A price cap meant as a cushion, in a system with no slack, turned a price shock into empty pumps

It's almost s if economic theories actually describe reality! Given that it's economy 101 predicting that this would happen.

Still, people do it again and again. Rent control proponents for housing should take notice.

parent teiferer 1 month ago

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