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At-will employment and creative destruction
Apr 16, 2024
David Brancaccio’s economic lessons from “The League.”
For American workers, noncompete agreements are pervasive – and might hold down their wages
Jul 5, 2018
You’ll find noncompete agreements where you might not expect. They govern many a low-wage worker, and limit employee mobility in occupations like fitness instructors and hair stylists.
Pizza Hut is now the official pizza of the NFL
by
Andy Uhler
Feb 28, 2018
Pizza Hut is replacing Papa John’s, which announced yesterday it was ending its contract with the National Football League. The league’s viewer numbers are down over the last couple of years. And a few months ago, Papa John’s then-CEO John Schnatter blamed players’ kneeling in protest during the national anthem as a big part of […]
MIT's Bengt Holmstrom and Harvard's Oliver Hart win Nobel prize in economics
Oct 10, 2016
The two were awarded for their work on contract theory.
Brexit could be a goldmine for lawyers
Jun 28, 2016
The legal industry has a lot of fine print to sort through. But the benefits could be short-lived.
Brexit: Corporations read the fine print
Jun 27, 2016
Contracts often include clauses that say companies don't have to be pursued if circumstances change
Another reason big companies don’t want you to read the fine print
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Robert Garrova
Nov 2, 2015
Companies are using arbitration clauses to keep consumers from filing lawsuits.
For public good, not for profit.
Ex-Im Bank, to reauthorize or not to reauthorize
Jun 30, 2015
The Export Import Bank’s charter expires Wednesday at midnight.
Autoworkers want to make up for long wage freeze
Dec 10, 2014
Automakers' profits are up, in part because assembly-line wages are down.
Your Wallet: Reading the fine print
Jun 30, 2014
We're looking for stories when the fine print tripped you up.