Back in August 2002, the Chalcedon Report printed an article by David Bahnsen entitled On Missing the Boat: When Well-Meaning Christian Economists Force Us to Look Elsewhere for Financial Advice. His point? That false financial prophets (Gary North, anyone?) were causing Christians to miss out on great kingdom building (and personal riches to boot!) opportunities [...]
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December 8, 2008
Why You’re Getting Laid Off
Everything you’ve been working on, producing, servicing, planning, monitoring, or building for the last decade (being conservative) was bankrolled by loans based on empty promises of future streams of income that will never materialize.
We don’t want to believe it, of course. Like Wile E. Coyote, we’re still running, even though we’ve long since departed terra [...]
October 25, 2008
Wendell Berry’s Time Is Now
Rod Dreher writes that Wendell Berry’s time is now, and gives an overview of Berry’s thoughts on foreign policy, the economy, food, community, and the environment.
Dreher’s point is that our time provides the perfect backdrop to understand the relevance of agrarianism in general, and Berry’s thinking in particular. Floyd couldn’t agree more, because not [...]
October 14, 2008
Wait A Minute – I Already Saw This Movie!
Read the script:
INTERIOR: CORUSCANT, MAIN SENATE CHAMBER – EVENING
JAR JAR stands in his pod as it floats in the middle of the
vast space.
JAR JAR: In response to the direct threat to the Republic
mesa propose that the Senate give immediately emergency
powers to the Supreme Chancellor.
Uproar. JAR JAR looks a little sheepish.
Brief silence, then a rolling wave [...]
October 13, 2008
Think Healthy!
Though I have been busy the last week or so eating MRE’s and listening to shortwave radio in my FFB (Financial Fallout Bunker), I decided to take a short break from preparing for financial doom this morning and read some headlines. I noted with interest that sales of personal safes are running particularly strong.
I [...]
October 12, 2008
Nothing To See Here, Folks, The Fundamentals Are Strong
Charts courtesy the St. Louis Fed.
October 12, 2008
Who Is To Blame For The Financial Crisis?
Its an oft-heard misnomer that the contraction of credit (or “freezing up” of the credit markets as the talking heads repeat incessantly) is the grand villain which threatens our financial freedom. But rather, it is credit itself which is our financial Ahab, and usury our Jezebel.
And it is no less true that just as God [...]
October 9, 2008
JP Morgan and the Fed
I invite you to check out this interesting article: Did JPMorgan Almost Fail? Jekyll Island Investment Still Paying Dividend.
September 26, 2008
Tolkien’s Practical Agrarianism
This sounds like an interesting lecture:
Matthew Dickerson presents “Beyond Romanticism” at Marquette University
October 23, 2008
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
“Beyond Romanticism: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Practical Agrarian Romance”
Professor Dickerson will explore one element of Tolkien’s comprehensive ecological vision expressed in his Middle-earth legendarium: the agrarianism of the Shire, and its contrast in the industrialized agriculture [...]
September 24, 2008
REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
Wow, my spam is getting more and more realistic!
From: Minister of the Treasury Paulson
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with
a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has
had crisis that [...]
