🧩 BND Motif Index · M240
Distorted markets
Government meddling distorts a market and creates the very shortages it meant to fix.
- 6claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 3right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Backfiring policy
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Housing shortage
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 3
🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ The David Frum Show 🎙️ To the Contrary with Charlie Sykes
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump announces $8 billion relief for farmers amid diesel cost concerns 2026-10-20 to 2026-10-23
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Obamacare made healthcare expensive by wiping out competitive pricing.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-10-23 “Trump's plan to allow truckers to buy tax-free red dye diesel will drive up prices and hurt farmers.”
🎙️ To the Contrary with Charlie Sykes 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) - 2026-10-22 “Government permitting costs drive up the price of new homes.”
🎙️ Morning Wire 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-08 “City governments make it difficult to increase housing supply by imposing mandatory affordable housing requirements and labor regulations.”
🎙️ The David Frum Show - 2026-10-08 “Restrictive building regulations and zoning in cities like San Francisco and New York make it nearly impossible to build new homes.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-05 “Rent control and housing policy are deeply flawed, with rent control distorting housing markets, creating long-term affordability issues, and failing to address the root problem of insufficient housing supply.” 🧶 people online
M240 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works