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"Nudge" Part 2: Mr. Nudge Goes to Washington

If Books Could Kill

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Cass Sunstein's Nudge Unit Delays and Waters Down Regulations

At least 38 rules were delayed by more than a year of the regulations that were actually passed during the Obama administration. Three quarters of them were changed by Cass Sunstein's nudge unit and almost all of them were like watered down and made less stringent. And then you have the actual output of it, which is the creation of red tape on behalf of industry. Yeah, I do think it's sort of the Senate's fault for just sending them letters when they could have started a PR campaign," he said.

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