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Ep. 255 The Economics of Discrimination

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Racial Discrimination in Mortgage Lending Has Declined Sharply in America

The Economist ran an article about racial discrimination in mortgage lending. The subtitle made everyone flip out, control for factors like credit scores and troubling racial gaps almost disappear. If you control for calories, then eating a McDonald's doesn't make you gain weight. So their point was this is stupid.

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