Momand: Mercatus Center estimated regulations slow annual economic growth by 0.8%
Maleka Momand · How to Fix Dysfunctional Government with Esper CEO Maleka Momand · Joe Lonsdale · Dec 22, 2021 · at 7:21
Esper CEO Maleka Momand discusses the economic cost of regulatory accumulation with Joe Lonsdale.
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“So this is a cool paper that came out a few years ago from the Mercatus Center. And basically it looked at the level of regulation, the cumulative cost of regulation from the 19 eighties to present day. And they estimated that, you know, the economy has slowed around .8% annually because of these sort of stacking regulations.”
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