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Betteridge, Ian (23 February 2009). "TechCrunch: Irresponsible journalism". Technovia.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 February 2009 . Retrieved 12 May 2019. So were all those warnings about the devastating effects of rent controls just neoliberal propaganda? Have we finally found out how to make rent controls works? The Swedish Union of Tenants defends the Swedish rent control system as ‘not a rent control system at all, but a negotiated collective bargaining system that is half way between the free market and rent control’. Apparently, because the decision on what the rent increase should be isn’t made by government officials, it isn’t a control. A 2018 study of 2,585 articles in four academic journals in the field of ecology similarly found that very few titles were posed as questions at all, with 1.82 percent being wh-questions and 2.15 percent being yes/no questions. Of the yes/no questions, 44 percent were answered "yes", 34 percent "maybe", and only 22 percent were answered "no". [13] This was the result of a last-minute intervention by then World journalist Herbert Bayard Swope, who, having received a tip from gambling friends that Charles Evans Hughes might not in fact win, persuaded Charles M. Lincoln, the managing editor of the paper, to reset the headline in between editions, inserting a question mark. [29] [30] Confusingly, below the question headline the World still had a picture of Hughes captioned "The President-Elect" but the question headline did indeed turn out to have the answer "no", as President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected, which the World finally announced in a headline two days later. [26] [28]

It would help, of course, if supporters of rent controls (or, for that matter, communism) could come up with at least one positive example. There are myriads of examples of ‘badly implemented’ rent controls, but why is it that nobody ever seems to get the implementation right? Not unless you are going to genuinely commit to doing something with the content, and finding other ways of listening to your people too – and definitely more regularly than once a year. However, as I’ve seen similar arguments advanced in other business magazines, notably in the US, it’s worth thinking through the logic of this argument from a business, ethical and legal perspective.The first empirical assessment of the Mietpreisbremse, from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), is now out. The authors compare the evolution of rental markets in places subject to the Mietpreisbremse to otherwise similar rental markets not subject to it. The good news is that the Mietpreisbremse has not, as one might have expected, led to a drop in property development. The legal process for reducing someone’s pay is also a difficult and time-consuming one for an employer. Contractual changes need to be consulted on and if an employee doesn’t agree then businesses are left in the legally-fraught ‘ fire and rehire’ scenario. Even if you get away with this legally, cutting people’s pay is far more likely to demotivate them and affect their productivity.

Juergens, George (2015). "Sensationalism". Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400877959. In the field of particle physics, the concept is known as Hinchliffe's rule, after physicist Ian Hinchliffe, who stated that if a research paper's title is in the form of a yes–no question, the answer to that question will be "no". [37] [38] The adage led into a humorous attempt at a liar paradox by a 1988 paper, written by physicist Boris Kayser under the pseudonym "Boris Peon", which bore the title: "Is Hinchliffe's Rule True?" ( Peon 1988). [39] [38] See also [ edit ] It is worth reading up on the Swedish system. Their rent control system does not cap rents or freeze them but controls them by controlling the increases in rents through collective bargaining between landlords and tenants unions. Rises are almost always above CPI/Inflation. The resulting increase is then ‘distributed’ across the different properties according to the ‘use value’ system.

Information is not knowledge. Take away the market that produces economic data, and governments would be flying blind. What to produce? How much should be produced? What production processes should be used? Who should be employed in production? Eliminate the freedom of individuals to choose, and central planners would have no way to answer these questions despite possessing mountains of past information on their hard drives. Such knowledge simply can’t be generated otherwise than by the market process. All the data in the world can’t change that.