Category: Economics
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A Plea for Christian Piracy [2]
[ Piracy 1 ] In the previous post I set out the tension between the godly meditations that St Paul urged us to – whatever is good, and pure etc. – and the raucously popular stories about pirates that outsold everything else in a bookshop around St Paul’s Cathedral. In Captain Johnson’s A General History…
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MP’s Expenses | Living ‘1,000,000% by the Rules’
From BBC News: Justice minister Shahid Malik has gone on the offensive after becoming the latest MP to be singled out by The Daily Telegraph over expenses claims. Mr Malik insists he stuck “a million per cent by the rules“ Perhaps it is not surprising these idiots have been caught fiddling the books and inflating…
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Two Thoughts on the Economy
“A capitalist system that privatizes profits in good times and socializes losses in bad times needs some fixes.“ Milton Friedman “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.“ Epictetus