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 [...]
Entries from April 2009
Captive and mesmerised
April 27th, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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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