Dan Rohde
@danrohde.bsky.social
Assist Prof Windsor Law | legal history of money, banking and central banking, especially in Canada | LPE/Const Approach to Money | co-ed @justmoney.bsky.social | sjd harvard law | Papers: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2799391
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Dan Rohde
@danrohde.bsky.social
· Sep 12
Who is a central bank for? The founding and legal design of the Bank of Canada1
Abstract. The Bank of Canada is an independent Crown corporation that sees its primary responsibility to be promoting Canada’s economic welfare by maintain
academic.oup.com
A thread on my new paper published in the American Journal for Legal History, which offers the first ever legal history of the @bankofcanada.ca's founding: academic.oup.com/ajlh/advance...
This is what we've done to our cities...👇
(Also, they never will, but banks should make buildings like they used to.)
(Also, they never will, but banks should make buildings like they used to.)
The old headquarters continued as a TD branch into the early 1960s, but Toronto’s postwar “urban renewal” declared many 19th-century buildings outdated.
This landmark was demolished in the early 1960s.
This landmark was demolished in the early 1960s.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is what we've done to our cities...👇
(Also, they never will, but banks should make buildings like they used to.)
(Also, they never will, but banks should make buildings like they used to.)
70%!!!
Yearly deaths caused by cars and trucks striking pedestrians rose 70 percent between 2010 and 2023, an examination of federal data and other public records by The Post shows.
The deadliest roads in America
The number of pedestrians killed by vehicles has increased in the U.S., with road infrastructure and inadequate safety measures among key contributing factors.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
70%!!!
Reposted by Dan Rohde
what's disgusting about this story is how many local officials pretty much admit that the lives of those living in these poorer sacrifice zones are simply not worth inconveniencing drivers
Yearly deaths caused by cars and trucks striking pedestrians rose 70 percent between 2010 and 2023, an examination of federal data and other public records by The Post shows.
The deadliest roads in America
The number of pedestrians killed by vehicles has increased in the U.S., with road infrastructure and inadequate safety measures among key contributing factors.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
what's disgusting about this story is how many local officials pretty much admit that the lives of those living in these poorer sacrifice zones are simply not worth inconveniencing drivers
Me this morning
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Me this morning
Nation-building = increasing the deficit while terminating 10% of the public service in order to provide kickbacks for private industry. Who knew!?
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
Liberals clear high-stakes confidence vote to pass federal budget, avoid holiday election
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minority Liberal government narrowly survived its third confidence vote in as many weeks on Monday, passing the federal budget by a vote of 170-168 and staving off a holid...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Nation-building = increasing the deficit while terminating 10% of the public service in order to provide kickbacks for private industry. Who knew!?
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
No, actually the multiverse split during the world series, and we are in the wrong reality (the one in which the Blue Jays lost). Time does not move at a regular pace in this reality. The Sun goes down too early, but each day lasts as long as three, shrouding us in seemingly endless darkness.
wait the world series ended less than three weeks ago?????
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
No, actually the multiverse split during the world series, and we are in the wrong reality (the one in which the Blue Jays lost). Time does not move at a regular pace in this reality. The Sun goes down too early, but each day lasts as long as three, shrouding us in seemingly endless darkness.
Great piece by @bendinovelli.bsky.social
📢Current scholarship! In "The Myth of Credit Card Competition" @bendinovelli.bsky.social argues that mainstream reform proposals to curb the high cost of credit card payments by increasing competition are misplaced, and that public utility law may hold the key for more promising alternatives. 👇
Current ScholarshipThe Myth of Credit Card Competition
Benjamin Dinovelli
justmoney.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Great piece by @bendinovelli.bsky.social
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I generally think of issues regarding translating from monetary to real values as a bit peripheral regarding understanding limitations of the ideal theory of markets - but I think it is really central and unavoidable when that theory aims to take on/bridge with ideas of productive efficiency
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I generally think of issues regarding translating from monetary to real values as a bit peripheral regarding understanding limitations of the ideal theory of markets - but I think it is really central and unavoidable when that theory aims to take on/bridge with ideas of productive efficiency
Whaaaat!?
Wordle 1,612 2/6*
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November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Whaaaat!?
Wordle 1,612 2/6*
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Reposted by Dan Rohde
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
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"The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy."
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy."
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"He noted that when he started, Indigenous people made up 15 per cent of federal prison system inmates and this has since risen to 33 per cent and a shocking 50 per cent when it comes to women in the system."
@aptnnews.bsky.social by Fraser Needham
@aptnnews.bsky.social by Fraser Needham
Zinger leaving post early due to lack of progress on Indigenous issues
Ivan Zinger, Canada's prison watchdog says he's leaving his job early due to the lack of progress on Indigenous issues in penitentiaries.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"He noted that when he started, Indigenous people made up 15 per cent of federal prison system inmates and this has since risen to 33 per cent and a shocking 50 per cent when it comes to women in the system."
@aptnnews.bsky.social by Fraser Needham
@aptnnews.bsky.social by Fraser Needham
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it's my birthday and my book launch sold out so we're moving to a bigger venue and all i want is for you guys to Fill Up This Church.
RSVP here! t.co/yjlJ10ZdJi
RSVP here! t.co/yjlJ10ZdJi
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
it's my birthday and my book launch sold out so we're moving to a bigger venue and all i want is for you guys to Fill Up This Church.
RSVP here! t.co/yjlJ10ZdJi
RSVP here! t.co/yjlJ10ZdJi
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Why Summers has any public platform to have his views aired and taken seriously at this point, I do not understand.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Why Summers has any public platform to have his views aired and taken seriously at this point, I do not understand.
Contracts profs, what case did I go over today in office hours? (And pardon for my handwriting!)
November 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Contracts profs, what case did I go over today in office hours? (And pardon for my handwriting!)
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postdoc/research fellow opportunity for aspiring law profs and legal scholars! If you want to spend some time in Toronto, we have two such open positions (good for up to 2 years) - deadline for applications is March 6, 2026 jackmanlaw.utoronto.ca/sites/defaul...
November 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
postdoc/research fellow opportunity for aspiring law profs and legal scholars! If you want to spend some time in Toronto, we have two such open positions (good for up to 2 years) - deadline for applications is March 6, 2026 jackmanlaw.utoronto.ca/sites/defaul...
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Think you can explain a lot of the freakout about the "woke pmc" and subsequent reactionary turn from the tech industry guys as well with this
I think this touches a deep, often-overlooked point. In my labour law days, I saw some employers spend MORE money fighting unionization than they would have paid accepting it. Loss of control was driving them at least as much as profits! Control is vital – with environmental policy as well.
I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Think you can explain a lot of the freakout about the "woke pmc" and subsequent reactionary turn from the tech industry guys as well with this
I think this touches a deep, often-overlooked point. In my labour law days, I saw some employers spend MORE money fighting unionization than they would have paid accepting it. Loss of control was driving them at least as much as profits! Control is vital – with environmental policy as well.
I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I think this touches a deep, often-overlooked point. In my labour law days, I saw some employers spend MORE money fighting unionization than they would have paid accepting it. Loss of control was driving them at least as much as profits! Control is vital – with environmental policy as well.
Paying my US student loans is reminding me that the US payment system is GARBAGE! Just trash. I know it's not surprising given how many aspects of American infrastructure are falling apart, but it's worth saying. The US payment system is like a collapsing highway, but too few are paying attention.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Paying my US student loans is reminding me that the US payment system is GARBAGE! Just trash. I know it's not surprising given how many aspects of American infrastructure are falling apart, but it's worth saying. The US payment system is like a collapsing highway, but too few are paying attention.
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NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social: I continue my deep dive into the intellectual origins of my "conventional wisdom processor". Here I examine the role of economists at Google, Amazon, Uber etc. in propagating an entirely different notion of markets.
www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...
www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...
What Connects Conventional Wisdom Processors, AI and The Second Trump Administration’s Constitutional Crisis? Part Two
This is Part Two of a three part series. Find Part one here.
Subscribe Today!
One of the most important microeconomics textbook writers ever is a man named Hal Varian. Generations o...
www.crisesnotes.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social: I continue my deep dive into the intellectual origins of my "conventional wisdom processor". Here I examine the role of economists at Google, Amazon, Uber etc. in propagating an entirely different notion of markets.
www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...
www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...
Very interestingly, the 2025 Budget is putting forth a radically different approach to open banking than the previous govt. It's being moved from FCAC to the @bankofcanada.ca and being given a much more structured approach. Canada.ca share.google/3FddXC3J8E88...
Canada.ca
The Government of Canada website is a single point of access to all programs, services, departments, ministries and organizations of the Government of Canada.
Canada.ca
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Very interestingly, the 2025 Budget is putting forth a radically different approach to open banking than the previous govt. It's being moved from FCAC to the @bankofcanada.ca and being given a much more structured approach. Canada.ca share.google/3FddXC3J8E88...
I know everyone is rightly talking about the election right now and not baseball, but this is hugely good news for the #bluejays! Let's run it back! Only better!
An early, unexpected offseason win for the #BlueJays: Shane Bieber has opted in.
Full story on the news from last night:
www.mlb.com/bluejays/new...
Full story on the news from last night:
www.mlb.com/bluejays/new...
Bieber opts in to return to Blue Jays rotation
TORONTO -- Just days into the offseason following their loss in Game 7 of the World Series to the Dodgers, the Blue Jays have already tallied their first win.
Shane Bieber on Wednesday opted in with t...
www.mlb.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I know everyone is rightly talking about the election right now and not baseball, but this is hugely good news for the #bluejays! Let's run it back! Only better!
Reposted by Dan Rohde
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
Reposted by Dan Rohde
Shane Bieber will opt into his one-year, $16M player option with the Blue Jays, keeping him in Toronto for the 2026 season. 🙌
(H/T Jon Heyman, @nypost)
(H/T Jon Heyman, @nypost)
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Shane Bieber will opt into his one-year, $16M player option with the Blue Jays, keeping him in Toronto for the 2026 season. 🙌
(H/T Jon Heyman, @nypost)
(H/T Jon Heyman, @nypost)