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Entries from April 2009

Captive and mesmerised

April 27th, 2009 · No Comments

It is apparent now there remains only one way for ordinary Americans who love their country and want at least some of what’s good about it to be preserved for future generations: We must kill the FIRE Economy beasts (FIRE: Finance, Insurance and Real Estate). We’re the victims in a hostage situation, if you didn’t [...]

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Tags: Economics

Salvation from work

April 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Our current crisis is due to the fact that we have, as a civilization, refused to live within our means – and the means afforded us by the natural world – over roughly the past 50 years. Mistaking a temporary glut of post-war wealth and resource plenty as a permanent condition, we are told [...]

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Tags: Economics

Dulled by falling

April 6th, 2009 · No Comments

Those expecting this deleveraging to result in a stronger dollar could not be more mistaken. The Obama Administration is scrambling to obtain relief from Europe and Asia, getting them to inflate their own currencies through ’stimulus,’ in order to continue to hide the unalterable truth – the US must partially default on its debt as [...]

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Tags: Economics

Palm Sunday

April 6th, 2009 · No Comments

From the Kingsland High Road yesterday we walked down Stoke Newington Church Street singing All Glory, Laud and Honour to Thee Redeemer King, and Ride on Ride on in Majesty. In the afternoon we met again at St John’s Hackney and sang our way around the south of borough, We are marching in the light [...]

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Tags: Church year

Passion and Christian baptism

April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

There is only one mistake to make when talking about economics. That is to talk about economics first and the Christian faith second. If we put them this way around, nothing we say is either Christian or useful. When we do not put the gospel first, we are only repeating what all others say, and [...]

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Tags: Economics

Walbrook Lent talks 09

April 1st, 2009 · No Comments

You can find the four Lent talks given at St Stephen’s Walbrook here at Scribd

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Tags: Church year