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'Renters Are Struggling': Economists Back Tenant-Led Push for Federal Rent Control
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You could click on each name to realize they are all economists or youcould read the sentence where I mention they are all economists.
The poll results you are arguing against is a consensus of experts. If you think you know better I think you need to takea second to ask why a person with no education in economics would know better than a group of people with doctorates.
You took 101 and 201 and you have no idea who the University of Chicago's IGM forum is? You either went to a clown collage, paid no attention in macro, or are completely full of shit. I strongly suspect you are lying about your credentials here as again the view Im giving would have been taught to you.
Ok, so you got nothing but appeal to authority, and the "authority" is a decade old poll that 40 people responded to on a janky website?
Apparently this IGM forum is something paid for by the Chicago Stock Exchange. I don't see any indication of the methodology they used to select these particular people. Given the source of their funding, it makes me a little suspicious. $1.5 million to 40 economists to answer an email once a week? Was the Chicago Stock Exchange paying that money for honest answers or were they paying for the answers they wanted to hear?
And they don't seem to do any macroeconomic analysis. Methinks it's just some bullshit meant to influence public opinion. I guess it worked on you.