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Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money
I start my meditation with a true story that will serve as a parable. On his 21st birthday, the nature writer…
Browsing: The Economy
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Taking Stock of 2011: Occupy Seattle, Part 4
During their brief existence, the Occupy movement has already yielded some benefits on the economic front. As Fr. Thomas Massaro…
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Two Visions: The Nativity vs. the Occupiers
I recently strolled down Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh and was struck by two images. First, there was the stirring…
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Is it Really Our Local Team? In Green Bay, Yes!
I did most of my growing up in Springville, New York, a small town boasting about 4,200 citizens in the…
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Practical Distributism: Subsidiarity and Social Security
Distributism includes the principal of subsidiarity, the idea that the family is the basic unit of society and higher levels…
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The Rich Are Getting Richer; So Are the Poor
“No matter your thoughts about the Occupy Wall Street movement, the protesters were right in at least one respect: The…
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China’s “Superior” Economic Model?
In a recent piece for the Wall Street Journal, Andy Stern, an Obama insider and one of organized labor’s more…
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Book Review: Economics for Helen
Economics” is the name which people have come to give to the study of wealth. It is the study by…
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Eurocracy Run Amuck
“We must re-establish the primacy of politics over the market.” That sentence, spoken a little while ago by Germany’s Angela…
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Is It Time for an Urban Version of the Homestead Act? Part 2
Many, many books, articles, and experiences have inspired and influenced this Urban Homesteading idea (see Part 1). I cannot possibly…