Former WH economist admits “clean energy” firms don’t create many jobs. Because the “labor saving technology” in solar panel production (and modern manufacturing in general) is “quite intense”, so “some of these firms don’t employ as many people as you might hope.” So he figured out what every businessman with half a brain between here and Beijing already knew for decades. And it only took 3 years and eleventy billion bucks to do it. Genius.
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After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.
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