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Economics

A Conservative Case for Pro-Family Policy

By Filings on Tue, 02/09/21
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“With a Biden administration and a Democrat–controlled Congress, conservatives will need to do plenty of yelling ‘stop!’ in the coming months….However, economic support for families is one area where social conservatives can and should find common ground with Democrats.” - Public Discourse

Economics for Church Leaders: How Minimum-Wage Laws Affect the Poor

By Filings on Wed, 02/03/21
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“Because both sides have noble intentions, the merits of the debate on minimum-wage laws and minimum-wage increases should be judged by Christians on empirical evidence that it will help, rather than harm, the poor.” - TGC

Get Ready for the Great Reset (Part 1)

By Paul J. Scharf on Thu, 01/21/21

Have you heard about the Great Reset?

Well, you may not have heard of it, but its leaders certainly have an incredibly intricate plan for you and your future.

The Reset has been designed by the World Economic Forum for a number of years, and the term has been used specifically since at least 2017.1 The WEF was also preparing for “a very severe pandemic” since at least October of 2019.2

The 3 pillars of Christian economics

By Filings on Fri, 01/01/21
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“1. Creativity and work. God the Creator tasked human beings with labor even in the Garden of Eden. This work allows us to refine, purify, and fructify His handiwork. While this does not make human beings co-creators – for only God created all things ex nihilo – it gives us a canvas on which to display the creativity God implanted inside all His children.” - Acton

Why Not Socialism?

By Filings on Tue, 07/21/20
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“…millions of well-meaning people think it’s a virtual synonym for compassion. But socialists themselves are constantly retreating from their own handiwork. It’s socialism until it doesn’t work, then it was never socialism in the first place.” - IFWE

No, the Pandemic Has Not Surged Billionaire Wealth

By Filings on Wed, 07/01/20
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“This claim has made headlines in CNBC, Fox Business, Business Insider, CNN, Reuters, Newsweek, and the New York Post. It has also been shared tens of thousands of times on social media….Yet the claim that billionaire wealth has surged ‘since the beginning of the pandemic’ is flatly untrue.” - N. Review

COVID-19 reminds us work is not just about money

By Filings on Mon, 04/13/20
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“People have all sorts of reasons for taking a job and their reasons could be thoroughly cynical and selfish. …But even in a heavily regulated mixed economy like our own, we’re seeing millions of people behaving in ways that can’t be explained by selfishness (not the same thing as self-interest) or greed – the common critiques.” - Acton

Can We Measure the Value of Saving Human Lives in Dollars? Somber Calculations in a Time of Plague

By Filings on Fri, 04/03/20
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“These paradoxes have a root cause. They all depend on a certain kind of economic model of practical rationality. They assume that the value of a human action can be identified with the expected value of the consequences of that action.

“Some Christians have become enamored with the ideas of socialism and even communism.”

By Filings on Thu, 02/27/20
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“First, when the terms are left undefined, they seem to describe “kind” and “benevolent” economic systems that will help the poor and raise people out of poverty. They seem equivalent to the good “social programs” in our republic. Second, there is a seeming connection with the early church as described in Acts 2:44-45 which legitimizes these systems in the minds of some Christians.” - Matt Postiff

Why Christians Should Care About Economic Ideas

By Filings on Fri, 02/07/20
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“It is no coincidence that the twentieth century was the bloodiest century in human history. The ideas of totalitarianism and communism started in the universities and made their way into policy. These policies had devastating and unthinkable human consequences. Deaths resulting from direct government action against citizens in the twentieth century reached 262,000,000.” - IFWE

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