Zero Hedge reports that Marine LePen of the unexpectedly popular National Front Party in France is now demanding that the French central bank repatriate its gold.

One World Trade Center, originally named the Freedom Tower, has been under construction for many years and only recently opened for business. It has been granted the title of the tallest building in the United States and the Western Hemisphere by the Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat. However, the title is controversial because the building only reaches the record breaking height of 1776 feet with the use of a spire that is several hundred feet tall. It is also the fourth tallest building in the world.

Three cheers to Steve Baker, Conservative MP from Wycombe, for raising the delicate yet important of matter of fractional-reserve banking in Britain´s House of Commons.

Writing in Time magazine this week (and linked to in Drudge), Darlena Cunha compares the Ferguson riots of today, as well as the Los Angeles riots of 1992, to the Boston Tea Party, arguing that such events are similar, well within the American tradition of social change, and should be viewed as such.  In this case, Al Sharpton is simply a modern Sam Adams, while the rioting in the news right now are extensions of those undertaken by oppressed American colonists of yesteryear.

Austrians gathered at the Southern Economic Association’s annual convention in Atlanta recently. In attendance were several Mises Fellows, Mises Summer Fellows and even graduates of the Mises University.

I organized a session called “Mundane Economics.” The idea behind the session was to use the ordinary tools of economics and hard work to defeat what is often “conventional wisdom.”