THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.”

— Carl Menger

BIRTHDAYS:

1633 Samuel Pepys, English writer and Tory politician.

1649 John Blow, English organist, composer. Chaconne in G, and Cupids Entry and Gavatt from Venus and Adonis, and A Jigg

1685 George Frideric Handel, German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti. Water Music: Hornpipe, and Zadok the Priest, and Sarabande in D minor

1744 Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German Jewish banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, which dominated international finance in Europe between the 1820s and the 1870s.

1817 George Frederic Watts, British painter and sculptor of the Symbolist movement.

1840 Carl Menger, Austrian economist (marginal utility theory, subjective theory of value), born in Neu-Sandez in Galicia, Austrian Empire.

1965 Michael Dell, American billionaire businessman and investor.

MISCELLANEOUS:

HE’S ON TO SOMETHING. Everyone Has Their Own Stuffed Monkey. Punch Just Made the Whole World Admit It.

BEFORE THE NEXT LOCK DOWN (INCLUDING VIOLATING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES SHOULD BE OBLIGATED TO READ THE FOLLOWING: