Shortages and Surpluses

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Rent control's price ceiling produces a shortage of 50, quantity demanded at 75 against quantity supplied at 25, and the same math flips into a labor surplus once the minimum wage takes over, before a binding-versus-non-binding slide and a vocabulary term for black markets close it out.

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