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Until 18-plus, T's and C supply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply. Hello! Welcome to the burning platform episode of Slate Money,

Your Guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Samman of Axios here with my colleague Emily Peck.

Hello, hello. And Elizabeth Spires.

Hello.

And we are going to talk about Southwest Airlines booking platform and how it blew up over the holidays.

We are going to talk about non-competes and whether the entire country can or should move to become basically California

where non-competes have been outlawed for as long as I can remember.

We have a slate plus about e-bikes and of course because this is late money and we can't

go three weeks without talking about crypto we're going to talk about

silver gate which was a big bank which suffered a bank run and is crypto related and we're going to talk

about regulation of crypto and finance more generally and where it's working and how it should work.

It's all coming up on slate money.

Emily, this is a big day for workers. You called it in Axios. What was it like the biggest thing that the Biden administration has ever done for

workers? Yes. What is it? So earlier this week on Thursday the Federal Trade Commission proposed a rule that would ban

employers from requiring their workers to sign non-compete agreements. These are

contracts where you say,

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