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Is one central company telling every bank to hold shares and only release them in specific amounts to achieve optimal price? That’s what’s happening with real p
by digitaltrees 3y ago
Is one central company telling every bank to hold shares and only release them in specific amounts to achieve optimal price? That’s what’s happening with real page, the supply side is being curated across the whole industry so there is no real competition and thus no real price seeking function. Free markets don’t work with that type of collusion.
- WalterBright 3y agoThere are millions of owners. Do you really believe they'll all stick to the cartel price?
- text0404 3y agoenough do to make enough of a problem that we're discussing it now.
- davidw 3y agoSo how come the landlords in Houston are losing out on so much money when they could be charging San Francisco prices?
- digitaltrees 3y agoThose are decoupled markets. Employers pay more in SF, so landlords can extract more. The problem is that landlords in both markets are colluding to extract more than pure market forces would otherwise support. Now if employers then have to raise wages further, that distortion could result in higher inflation. Capitalism doesn’t work when monopolies and cartels gain sufficient power to eliminate the price setting function of competition.
- WalterBright 3y agoCartels don't work without coercion of its members. Remember the no-poaching cartel among tech companies in Silicon Valley? and the companies were cheating on their cartel agreement? and the infamous email Steve Jobs sent complaining about the cheating? A landlord has no power.