Rogers and Schiff

On what's up ahead:

All Quiet

Eight dozen years ago today, the guns of the Great War fell silent – the first anniversary of Armistice Day after the centennial of the beginning of that same dreadful war.

On the same day, the Emperor of Austria renounced power and the Austro-Hungarian Imperial-Royal Family moved from Schönbrunn to internal exile at Eckartsau.

Two days later, the Hungarian equivalent to the Austrian renunciation was signed at Eckartsau.

A world ended, it was the dawn of a new age, the era of Wilsonian mass democracy.

On the day 29 years later, on November 11, 1947, Winston Churchill delivered his famous dictum on democracy (also: on his supposed quote on a five minute conversation with an average voter). He did so in defense of the prerogatives of the House of Lords. The following year the first volume of Churchill's six-volume work on World War Two came out. In his assessment of World War One and its end, Churchill praised the achievements of the Habsburg monarchy and decried how World War One was a war of peoples who could not come to good terms with each other, as opposed to how the aristocrats managed affairs at the Congress of Vienna just over a hundred years earlier.

It is too the anniversary of the House of Lords Act 1999.

This seems to be a day for modern democracy. At least, the end of a dreadful war should indeed be celebrated, as a deed in itself.

Faber, Schiff, and Greenspan

On the money madness:

Abdication Announcement

In this centennial year of the outbreak of the war to end civilization, four years short of a century ago today, Emperor Wilhelm II's abdication was announced.

Austria and Uncle Sam

In this centennial year of the outbreak of World War One, seven years short of a century ago today, the peace treaty after the Great War between Austria and those United States came into force.

The October Revolution

Four years short of a century ago today, the world was struck by Red October.

Greenspan on Gold and Money

In the present money madness:

Woods Explains the Austrian Business Cycle Theory

In the present money madness, Dr. Tom Woods gives a simple but excellent explanation of the Austrian business cycle theory:

Swedish-Norwegian Union

Two centuries ago today, the Kingdoms og Sweden and Norway were joined in union through the Norwegian Parliament's constitutional revision of this day, resulting in what is known as the November Constitution.

Germanosphere Rebels

In this year of the centennial of the outbreak of World War I, four years short of a century ago today, revolutionaries were making their way in Austria-Hungary and Germany.

The Ottoman Sultanate

92 years ago today, the Ottoman Sultanate was abolished.

Burke's Reflections on France

In this year of 225 years since the outbreak of the French Revolution, a year short of nine quarters of a century ago today, Edmund Burke had his Reflections on the Revolution in France appropriately published.