Question Request for February 2022
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How should subcontractors bid work today? If you include all the costs, you lose the bid. If you put in a cost escalation clause in your contract, the owner rejects it. What does an Economist recommend?
AB - what are the economic factors that are driving the level of inflation we are currently seeing? And please address the role of "expectations". Thanks! - MG