Tag: Economics
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Prophet Jim Wallis and the Ecclesia of Economic Ignorance
Wallis poses as a centrist but his economic prescriptions are hard-left with lots of self-congratulatory “prophetic” moralizing thrown in. +++++++++++++++++++ By John Couretas. Acton Institute This class of the very poor – those who are just on the borders of pauperism or fairly over the borders – is rapidly growing. Wealth is increasing very fast;…
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Greece as Political Time Bomb
David P. Goldman posted this today on First Things’s blog First Thought. He describes the economic situation in Greece and sketches out some of the social causes and possible outcomes. In my heart I want what I read here to not be true–but I suspect my hopes are misplaced. In Christ, +Fr Gregory On Feb.…
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Archbishop of Canterbury Opens Trinity Wall Street Economics Conference
BREAKING NEWS! John Couretas has an excellent analysis over at the Acton Blog with video. Back to our report… I don’t want to turn this into beat up on the Anglicans day but, as long as we are discussing the presumptuousness of religious professionals, here’s another. Amid the backdrop of an ongoing economic recession, Archbishop…