While I agree that I don't understand how this is price fixing, I'm not sure your argument is valid. Standard Oil is a pretty well-known example of producers colluding to keep the price up, but they still kept it low enough that people found a ton of ways to make use of oil from transportation to heating to labor productivity. Using the "loss of demand" measurement we would probably have missed it.

I think the issue here isn't collusion per se, but rather that an information disparity exists and disadvantages tenants and is being perceived as "price fixing" because there really isn't any other mechanism currently to deal with the problem.

One alternative solution would be to level the playing field by finding some way to make tenants and landlords alike have access to the same level and quality of information. I would suggest perhaps all rents and rent offers should be published in a way that anyone can apply their own algorithm on either side of the negotiation.

Dunno about other countries, but in Peru at least Nescafe is made with local Peruvian beans so it's definitely better than in the US.

My wife is Peruvian and we fill our suitcases with coffee from Cusco and Quillabamba on the way back. The way to make coffee there is they have a small pot with what looks like a small tin can on the top with holes in the bottom. Fill the can halfway with coffee, pour boiling water over it, and let it drip into the little pot. Do that two or three times, depending on how strong you want and how much you filled the can. Now put hot water in your cup and pour the coffee concentrate you've extracted into it.

Heaven

Poster name fits.

Or Iran. Or Somalia. Or Yemen. Or maybe just give the weapons away to someone else who can use them to commit more war crimes for us.

More like Loser: North Korea AND South Korea AND world stock markets. They could flatten Seoul in about 20 minutes with the dug-in and pre-aimed artillery they've had next to the border since the armistice, which is probably the only reason that the South hasn't invaded yet. Imagine the effect on the NYSE of Hyundai, Samsung, Kia and LG instantaneously decapitated.

It likely won't be any worse than the humans at the Pentagram have done over the last 80 years. The only place that we definitively "won" in that whole time is Grenada, when the "opponent" was around 50 Cuban engineers extending runways for the tourist trade. We've had some pretty dramatic losses though, including to a bunch of goat herders with 40 year old Kalashnikovs.

So you're crediting Mao with every death in WWII, or what? Even the CIA in the Reagan years only exaggerated his number up to 30 million.

Apparently he was a morphine addict as well, at least during the revolution. He had been wounded and might have gotten addicted then.

We rely a **LOT** more on them than they do on us. Rare earth elements and magnets are just two of the key markets that they control which is hurting what industry remains in the US, much of it manufacturing war toys, there are several others that they can turn the spigot off on that would leave us in a world of hurt. Then there's their holdings of US debt, and that they're leading the rest of the BRICS+ countries in de-dollarization. Additionally just one company in China last year built more tons of shipping than the US has in all the years since WWII combined, they're exporting nuclear power plants throughout the world, Belt & Road is replacing the rapacious IMF/World Bank programs, most of 5G and almost all of the 6G specs originate from there, and they're attracting the tech students and instructors from around the world who formerly would have been in the US. On pretty much every front the US is losing ground.

Every mainstream economist in the 1980s.

They don't want our tech any more, theirs is increasingly better than ours. Amazing what happens when you educate an entire population and praise smart people more than sportsball morons.

China permitted more nuclear plants just in April than the US/EU has built since 1970, plus they export more. Since we're not allowed under this wonderful "free trade" government to buy their technology we're probably not going to get any better at building them either.

How much is your electric bill? In China it averages about $7, and no, that's not a below-cost number.

I used to like Krugman when Shrub was Pres-idiot, he was one of the few who were calling out the sub-prime mortgages for what they were. Then Obama got elected and he became a typical brown nosing Washington insider, and he's stayed in that mode since. Everything a Democrat does is good and everything a Republican does is bad, refusing to acknowledge the simple fact that his chosen party is at least half as corrupt/incompetent as the Republicans if not more.