The (immortal) German state of Bavaria, it seems, claims and exercises ownership rights in respect of Adolf Hitler’s bestseller, Mein Kampf. Sixty-four years after the author’s death, this article in Haaretz recounts the prosecution in Poland of an entrepreneur who got 20,000 copies printed up, presumably in Polish.
Just what market it encountered in the first country the Nazis counquered in World War II (proper) isn’t mentioned.
I noted previously (Update: The Prophetic Dr. Hoppe on the Rise of the Phoenix) Professor Hoppe’s prediction years ago of the inexorable move to a single, worldwide fiat currency. It’s coming. As reported here, “The dollar dropped after China’s central bank reiterated a call for a worldwide currency.”
I am certain that everyone watching Bernanke’s testimony on Capitol Hill is as concerned for Chairman Bernanke’s health as I am. It seems that our reluctant savior has a very severe case of Alzheimer’s. Thus far the substance of Dr. Bernanke’s testimony can be summarized by his most frequent quote “I do not recollect.” No one really expects this Congressional hearing to have any substantive consequences for Chairman Bernanke. However, there is a danger that Dr. Bernanke’s detractors might use his terrible illness as an excuse for removing him from office.
Some French tourists “mistakenly” got into an “unlicensed” taxi after arriving at JFK Airport, so New York police chased the van for several miles, putting the lives of everyone in danger before the driver crashed the van. The AP dispatch makes it sound as though the police were heroes and the van driver was a villain:
The concepts of socialism and capitalism have definite meanings. Socialism is defined as state ownership of the means of production. The definition has been accepted by the most consistent practitioners of collectivist creed in failed socialist countries. But certain left-libertarian theoreticians (“mutualist” Kevin Carson is prominent among them) deny that state ownership captures the essence of socialism or that it has anything to do with the state or central planning of the Soviet style.
On Friday the House is expected to vote on the Waxman-Markey climate change and energy bill, which contains an aggressive cap-and-trade program. Critics have pointed out that it could impose serious harms on the U.S. economy with little environmental benefit. The CBO entered the fray [.pdf] recently and announced that by 2020, the annual cost to the average household would be a mere $175. Not bad for saving the planet, eh?
