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Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s newsletter takes a look at Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plans to create a federal homebuilder and all the ways that it’s a terrible idea. A Nationalized Developer Is Not the Answer to Canada’s High Housing Costs Yesterday, Carney unveiled a new campaign-trail plan to boost home construction through the creation of a federal development agency. The prime minister’s proposed Build Canada Homes (BCH) entity would […]
Apple TV+’s Shrinking revolves around Jimmy Laird, a psychologist who responds to his wife’s sudden death by getting very involved—to unconventional extremes—in his patients’ lives. The series also encompasses the lives of Laird’s peers, from his coworker Gaby, who is negotiating her independence from her family while dealing with a collapsing marriage, to his best friend Brian, a pickleball-playing lawyer realizing that his “double income, no kids” life feels empty. The first season introduced the characters and their struggles. The […]
Gail Appel wrote: Divine Design – God doesn’t make mistakes. The post Breathtaking Arches National Park in Utah appeared first on LewRockwell.
In the early 13th century, the warrior aristocracy of Christian Europe bound its ruling monarchs to a structured legal system—first with the Magna Carta in England in 1215, and then with a succession of other treaties across Europe. Slightly later, a complex code of moral norms and rules of conduct arose, aiming to restrain professional warriors. Force and power were now subjected to legal rules, and the path to constitutional government was underway. That story is well-known to […]
A lot of the stuff in this post is based on parts of Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State and talks by Lucas Engelheardt, Patrick Newman, and Bob Murphy. If you have not read I, Pencil by Leonard Read, please do. (it is in the sidebar) It gives an excellent example of the complexity of capital structure in a modern economy. I don’t think many people who are interested in economics know what capital structure is. This is […]
Carus Michaelangelo wrote: Lew, Thanks for sharing the Ayn Rand quote Roderick Long posted. Funny, the political class is more than happy to impose ever-more controls as fast as they can have them, but we peons must be satiated by gradual reductions in controls. Rothbard long ago exposed the fallacies of reverse Fabianism—the State’s tendency is to grow, not shrink, so gradualism in destatizing is doomed from the start. But more centrally, the only way for it to work is […]
“I’m not joking,” said President Donald Trump to NBC this past weekend, referring to his talk of seeking a third term. “A lot of people want me to do it,” said Trump on the air. “But I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.” “I’m focused on the current,” he added. When pressed on how exactly he could seek a third term—something barred by the 22nd […]
