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This Is How New York Will Collapse | Tom Bilyeu Show LIVE Clips

13 min episode · 2 min read

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13 min

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2 min

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Personal Finance, Investing, Fundraising & VC

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Key Takeaways

  • Rent Control History: New York's 1960s-70s rent freezes made building maintenance unprofitable, leading to widespread arson where 25% of Bronx building fires were insurance fraud by landlords unable to cover costs.
  • Housing Supply Solution: Deregulate construction restrictions and implement escalating property taxes on multiple home ownership (50% tax on third properties) to increase supply rather than artificially controlling prices through rent caps.
  • Voter Psychology Study: Cross-cultural research shows voters prefer policies that punish wealthy people even when those policies worsen conditions for the poor, rather than supporting free market solutions that help both groups.

What It Covers

Tom Bilyeu analyzes why New York mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani's rent control and free transit policies will accelerate economic collapse through capital flight and reduced housing investment.

Key Questions Answered

  • Rent Control History: New York's 1960s-70s rent freezes made building maintenance unprofitable, leading to widespread arson where 25% of Bronx building fires were insurance fraud by landlords unable to cover costs.
  • Housing Supply Solution: Deregulate construction restrictions and implement escalating property taxes on multiple home ownership (50% tax on third properties) to increase supply rather than artificially controlling prices through rent caps.
  • Voter Psychology Study: Cross-cultural research shows voters prefer policies that punish wealthy people even when those policies worsen conditions for the poor, rather than supporting free market solutions that help both groups.

Notable Moment

Bilyeu argues landlords burning buildings for insurance money in the seventies wasn't criminal greed but rational economic response to government policies that made property ownership financially impossible to maintain.

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Episode Transcript

Look, it's our ugly home. Retta is back for a historically hideous season. It's our one hundredth ugly house. This place is mayhem. That is impressive. And if these walls could talk Do you cry a lot? I do. They'd have a lot to say. What in God's name is this pit? Don't get too close. No. No. You see the show? I'm scared of that. Ugly as Tows in America, season premiere, Wednesday, January 7 at eight on HGTV. This podcast is sponsored by Talkspace. Last year, I went through many different life changes. I needed to take a pause and examine how I was feeling in the inside to better show up for the ones who need me to be my best version of myself. When you're navigating life's changes, Talkspace can help. Talkspace is the number one rated online therapy, bringing you professional support from licensed therapists and psychiatry providers that you can access anytime, anywhere. Living a busy life, navigating a long distance relationship, becoming a first step father, Talkspace made all of those journeys possible. I could speak with my therapist in the office. I could speak with my therapist in the comfort of my home. I was never alone. Talkspace works with most major insurers, and most insured members have a $0 co pay. No insurance. No problem. Now get $80 off your first month with promo code space 80 when you go to talkspace.com. Matched with a licensed therapist today at talkspace.com. Save $80 with code space 80 at talkspace.com. Zoran Mondani is clearly going to be the next mayor of New York, but he is a villain, a charming villain. But here's what his fans are not thinking about. The mayoral debate was yesterday. In the words of Tom, who calls mom Donnie his, villain, is he, like, a super villain now at this point? Like, a arch nemesis? The the super villain is Marxism itself, socialism itself. When you look at the price of gold right now and realize how rapidly it's going up, and the price of gold is an indication as to how stable the market thinks your economy is, and it's saying, bro, you're in real trouble. Everything that is wrong with the economy right now is based on debt money printing. Mom, Donnie is gonna make that worse. The buses are never gonna be free. Nothing is ever gonna be free. Everything is gonna be paid for by somebody, but this all becomes abstracted. If New York decides that what they want is free buses, then my only question is what aren't you going to do to be able to pay for that? If what we see is a measurable improvement in something that we all care about based on that and you don't see capital flight because they're like, okay. Yeah. This is the thing that we're that's worth paying for. Great. No problem. I have exactly zero belief that that's how this is gonna go. …

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