Der Spiegel reports on the Mars One project to colonize Mars with funding coming from an expected $6 billion in broadcasting rights in what would be a sort of interplanetary Truman Show.

Central bankers and their economists had their annual retreat to Jackson Hole Wyoming this past week. Given all of their self-proclaimed success in curing the economic crisis with their Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) and Quantitative Easing (QE). You would think that the event would have been a big celebration.

I see that some people have become a bit upset with how the police are conducting themselves recently. They declare that the police need to be reminded that “they work for us, not the other way around.” This statement expresses an utterly naive and untutored idea. The police don’t work for us, if by “us” we mean you, me, and at least 95 percent of the rest of the population.

Seeking Alpha has a nice article debunking the tired “wealth effect” concept. We see this phony phrase trotted out endlessly, but it’s helpful to understand it as combining both Keynesian and Monetarist elements:

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Alasdair Macleod makes a sensible recommendation. This article originally appeared on City A.M.:

“A free market case for independence: Let’s make Scotland like Hong Kong” by Alasdair Macleod

Jessica Pavoni explains how she came to know Mises, Rothbard, and the rest:

[Ron Paul] was consistent, and he kept coming back to the following principle: what is the proper role of government? Before we argue about cutting 10% of the Department of Education’s budget, shouldn’t we discuss whether or not it should exist in the first place?

Volume 17, no. 2 (Summer)

Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State”
Stephen P. Halbrook
Oakland: The Independent Institute, 2013, 248 pgs.