And we're like, well, you know, we're frustrated and maybe this will work. It fails. And this isn't me saying this. This is every economist. This is Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner from the New York Times, said the fact that rent control is bad is one of the best understood and least controversial ideas in all of economics. Sweden actually had this nationally and an economist did a study of it and he said rent control is the best way to destroy a city, except for bombing, because … (09:37–09:51)
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