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Economist Dean Baker on upcoming US Federal Trade Commission hearings on non-compete clauses, which have spread well beyond highly paid employees:
"Anyone who thinks that making [non-competes] unenforceable would be a case of the government interfering in the market needs to think further. The government *always* decides what sort of contracts it will enforce."
https://cepr.net/noncompete-clauses-markets-are-made-not-given-by-nature/
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> If everyone commuted 20 percent less, it would save a huge amount in commuting costs... by having fewer trips, we would have less congestion and less energy wasted by cars sitting in traffic. That sounds like a really good deal all around. (Of course, working from home, and not commuting at all, is even better.)..
#DeanBaker #DecentEconomist #GoodEconomist #CEPR #CenterForEconomicAndPolicyResearch -
> The #OnlineCalculator is simple. For example, the Washington Post recently reported these budget numbers: the cost of President Biden’s American Jobs Plan was lowered to a proposed $1.7 trillion over eight years, while Senate Republicans countered with an $800 billion proposal... #DeanBaker pointed out, Biden’s proposal “. . . is a bit less than 0.8 percent of #GDP...
https://cepr.net/press-release/new-tool-helps-reporters-put-us-budget-numbers-into-perspective/
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Municipal building codes slow down the #energy #transition
Stefano Carattini Béla Figge Alexander Gordan Andreas Löschel
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/municipal-building-codes-slow-down-energy-transition
