Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s stories include: The devastating unintended consequences of Los Angeles’ “mansion tax” on commercial and multifamily housing development. The devastating (possibly intended) consequences of the White House’s new tariffs on homebuilders. But first, our lead story on the slow progress of rebuilding efforts in fire-stricken Los Angeles. Slow and Steady Monday marked the three-month anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area. […]
Emily Ekins and Hunter Johnson 89 Percent Favor Auditing All Government Spending to Root Out Waste, Fraud, and Abuse; Americans Would Cut 40 Percent Across the Board Findings from the Cato Institute’s 2025 Fiscal Policy National Survey of 2,000 Americans reveal a bleak assessment of the government’s financial responsibility. More than three-fourths (76 percent) of Americans believe the federal government “spends too much money.” This sentiment may be driven in part by the fact that 85 percent say […]
FOX commentator Charles Payne recently repeated Pat Buchanan’s old post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy (After this, therefore because of this) about tariffs in a Breitbart column. The fallacy goes like this: 1). Economic growth occurred during the post Civil War period up to the turn of the century. 2). High protectionist tariffs were imposed during the Lincoln regime and lasted for some fifty years. 3). Therefore, the protectionist tariffs caused the economic growth. Yes, and the rooster […]
Thanks to President Trump‘s brinkmanship, tariffs are in the headlines. However, while the public knows about tariffs, few people actually understand them, their history, and how they work.
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Cybersecurity professionals and the infosec community have essential roles to play in protecting our democracy, securing our elections, and building, testing, and safeguarding government infrastructure. It is critically important for us to speak up to ensure that essential work continues and that those engaged in these good faith efforts are not maligned by an administration that has tried to make examples of its enemies in many other fields. President Trump has targeted the former Director of the government’s […]
A presidente da Câmara de Vereadores de Santa Cruz do Sul (RS), Nicole Weber (Podemos), afirma ter recebido uma emenda parlamentar de R$ 1,3 milhão como “presente” de seu noivo, o deputado federal Covatti Filho (PP-RS), com quem vai casar em maio. O município, com 133 mil habitantes, fica a 155 km de Porto Alegre. + Leia mais notícias de Política em Oeste Nicole viajou a Brasília em busca de recursos para a reforma do sistema elétrico do […]
A police officer in Miami, Florida has been suspended pending an investigation into an incident in which she sat in her patrol car while numerous bikers assaulted a man in front of her. Video shows the bikers not only beating the man but jumping on the hood and roof of his car and breaking his windshield, during which time the officer never left her car. The post Brickbat: To Observe, not Report appeared first on Reason.com.