Which is why I’m posting it on a public website…
Today (The fact that this came in on the day before the 4th seems very strategic, especially considering the appeals to nationalism within.) I got a letter from Advancing Native Missions.
They say, amongst other things:
Please forgive the urgent, confidential nature of this letter. But I do [...]
Are we called to help the world move toward justice for the oppressed, or are we to provide that justice out of our own means?
The guy who holds a subsidy on corn bought that subsidy from the farmer before him. He paid the present value at that time of all future subsidies. That is, if [...]
As (future) economists, we are asked for advice about shaping policy. Not every profession gets that opportunity. Clergy have a much different way of speaking “truth to power” than a Christian economist might. And the advice a Christian economist might give to a policy maker is quite likely to be different than the [...]
Introduction
In this essay I open a passage of scripture which has much to say to the marketplace community, and then offer a few words informed by the economic discipline. Finally, I offer some specific action points to the marketplace community, several of which I expect to be controversial, though I believe well founded. [...]
and Wal-Mart.
Google is about openness (when it’s convenient, is their search engine algorithm free and open?)
They want to make cell phones, gphones, open. Take away the proprietary op systems and put in a google-y os which allows programmers to create killer aps.
Read the article in Slate.
Profits don’t have to be rents, they can be producer [...]
Its time to go read my Constitution again, because I can’t remember what it has to say about public schools.
The schools are the ultimate political prize. If you can get the schools to teach your ideology you will win the next generation… blah, blah, blah.
First I don’t buy that line. But more importantly, how can [...]
Individuals and groups concerned about global inequality paint a fair target on US agricultural subsidies.
Jim Wallis:
The question this morning for members of the U.S. Senate is simply this: How long will you postpone justice?
Is there anybody on this hill, in this town, who believes that continuing outdated, outmoded, but enormous subsidies to the world’s biggest [...]