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Re:Rent Control Needs Retirement, Not a Comeback by DangerousPie on Friday February 09, 2018 @09:27AM (#16340351)
Both of those building booms were shortly after world war one and world war two. Can you really make any fair comparisons based on that?

The entire US economy was booming after the war. So numbers from that period don't tell you much about what things would have been like in peace time.

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Re:Rent Control Needs Retirement, Not a Comeback by crdoconnor on Friday February 09, 2018 @10:01AM (#16340604)
Except I'm not claiming that the rent controls stimulated the boom. Just that the correlation posited by Megan McArdle absent any supporting data is imagined.
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