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Daniel Melgar's avatar

Absolutely brilliant!

PS—Do you think Mamdani will read your paper (or this post)? Your conclusion is staggering to say the least.

Brian Albrecht's avatar

I dont think he will :)

Gabriel Jaramillo's avatar

But how would these results apply for the housing market?

Alan Seals's avatar

This is fantastic.

Quy Ma's avatar

The baby chicks were tragic. The Connecticut vs Idaho map was the real gut punch.

Patrick R Sullivan's avatar

"As Thomas Sowell stressed in Knowledge and Decisions, the economy loses its capacity for incremental adjustment and instead lurches between all-or-nothing extremes."

Exactly. Which is why Sowell deserved the Nobel Prize for writing this book.

Joe Potts's avatar

Deserved? Did he die?

Jeffrey Carter's avatar

Now do Rent controls.....sheesh

Thomas L. Hutcheson's avatar

I think this may apply to recessions and central banks that would not go below th so -called zero lower bound.

devlin's avatar

Can I shill you a paper about how price controls have probably were the main fiscal reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union

https://devlin.substack.com/p/the-soviet-agricultural-subsidies

I want to develop it more, practically, the decline in revenue wasn't that big to cause the fiscal implosion, while the need to hold price controls was.