Brad DeLong — Abigail Adams (1776): "I long to hear that you have declared an independency...

Abigail Adams quote.

From Wikipedia:

Abigail Adams (née Smith; November 22, [O.S. November 11] 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the closest advisor and wife of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. She is sometimes considered to have been a Founder of the United States,[1] and is now designated as the first Second Lady and second First Lady of the United States, although these titles were not used at the time.

Adams's life is one of the most documented of the First Ladies: she is remembered for the many letters she wrote to her husband while he stayed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Continental Congresses. John frequently sought the advice of Abigail on many matters, and their letters are filled with intellectual discussions on government and politics....

Grasping Reality
Abigail Adams (1776): "I long to hear that you have declared an independency...Brad DeLong | Professor of Economics, UCAL Berkeley

Pepe Escobar — The future of the EU at stake in Catalonia

Fascist Franco may have been dead for more than four decades, but Spain is still encumbered with his dictatorial corpse. A new paradigm has been coined right inside the lofty European Union, self-described home/patronizing dispenser of human rights to lesser regions across the planet: “In the name of democracy, refrain from voting, or else.” Call it democracy nano-Franco style.

Nano-Franco is Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, whose heroic shock troops were redeployed from a serious nationwide terrorist alert to hammer with batons and fire rubber bullets not against jihadis but … voters. At least six schools became the terrain of what was correctly called The Battle of Barcelona....

Asia Times
The future of the EU at stake in Catalonia
Pepe Escobar

Tim Johnson — A short comment on money and independence

During the (now ironically labelled) 'Arab spring' I read Alistair Horne's A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962. Reading the introductory chapters describing the state of the French Departments of Algeria in the first half of the twentieth century it struck me that control of the financial system was essential for a political entity to be truly democratic....

Fundamentally I think the whole focus on the currency issue is an expression of the alienation of people from money. If people appreciated money as a social relationship, the significance of the currency would be obvious but the debate would be on the nature of the relationship between England and Scotland, not the embarrassing, unproductive slanging match that, unfortunately, has been the reality of the independence debate….

Money, Maths and Magic

A short comment on money and independence

Tim Johnson | Lecturer (associate professor) in the Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Marshall Auerback — George Osborne Is Right: Scotland Under Sterling Is Not Truly Independent

How about talking about currency independence being necessary for national independence instead of currency sovereignty being necessary for national sovereignty? 

"Independence" seems to me to be more forceful emotionally than "sovereignty."

Macrobits
George Osborne Is Right: Scotland Under Sterling Is Not Truly Independent
Marshall Auerback