Entries Tagged as “Economics”

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Peggy Noonan: There Is No New Frontier
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: Peggy Noonan
By:  Craig Uffman on October 20, 2009 Excerpt: People who oppose a health-care overhaul are not in love with insurance companies. They're not even in love with the status quo. Everyone knows the jerry-built system of the past…   Read full post >>

Health-care option: The Corinthian Plan
Channel: Christian Century  Author: Amy Frykholm
By:  Craig Uffman on September 22, 2009 Excerpt: When Juanita Nuñez and her husband, Eligio, copastors of a small Mennonite congregation in Apopka, Florida, were involved in a serious car accident in 2006, Juanita Nuñez immediately worried about…   Read full post >>

Bishops lobby Congress members on social justice issues
Channel: Episcopal Life  Author: Lynette Wilson
By:  Craig Uffman on September 18, 2009 Excerpt: Bishops representing 200,000 Episcopalians from Maine to California made the case for health care and immigration reform, and stricter environmental protection on Capitol Hill Sept. 16. Together as "Bishops Working…   Read full post >>

Rowan Williams Channels Jeremiah: “Bankers, Repent!”
Channel: Times (UK)  Author: Ruth Gledhill
By:  Craig Uffman on September 16, 2009 Excerpt: The Archbishop of Canterbury has attacked the bonus culture of the City, condemning the failure of bankers to repent for their excesses. Dr Rowan Williams, who has consistently taken a…   Read full post >>

Jack Bauer’s Health-Care Reform
Channel: On Faith  Author: DAVID WATERS
By:  Craig Uffman on September 01, 2009 Excerpt: Would Rush Limbaugh support Canadian-style, government-run universal health care, if he knew Jack Bauer thought it was "damn well worth fighting for'? Of if he knew that the man who…   Read full post >>

An Affordable Salvation
Channel: New York Times  Author: Paul Krugman
By:  Craig Uffman on May 01, 2009 Excerpt: The 2008 election ended the reign of junk science in our nation’s capital, and the chances of meaningful action on climate change, probably through a cap-and-trade system on emissions, have…   Read full post >>

The Real Prosperity Gospel
Channel: Christianity Today  Author: John Calvin with Knox Bucer-Beza
By:  Craig Uffman on April 22, 2009 Excerpt: Has the so-called prosperity gospel turned its followers into some of the most willing participants—and hence, victims—of the current financial crisis? David Van Biema, "Maybe We Should Blame God for…   Read full post >>

Goodbye Bland Affluence
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: Peggy Noonan
By:  Craig Uffman on April 20, 2009 Excerpt: A small sign of the times: USA Today this week ran an article about a Michigan family that, under financial pressure, decided to give up credit cards, satellite television, high-tech…   Read full post >>

Taxes and Values
Channel: On Faith  Author: Valerie Elverton Dixon
By:  Craig Uffman on April 17, 2009 Excerpt: Taxes taxes everywhere and deficit spending as far as the eye can see. Federal, state and sometimes local income taxes, property, excise and sales taxes; taxes on telephone service and…   Read full post >>

Reverend Billy’s Bailout
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: DAVID WEIDNER
By:  Craig Uffman on April 17, 2009 Excerpt: Would Jesus take a bailout? Confronted with the once-in-a-century opportunity to remake the financial system, the reformers in Washington have a choice: Succumb to the temptation of serving financial supermarkets…   Read full post >>

Is Rand Relevant?
By:  Craig Uffman on March 15, 2009
Excerpt:  My wife and I became engaged, fortunately, before I entered my Ayn Rand phase. I doubt she would have gone on a second date with me had the chronology been…   Read full post >>

Citizens, illegal immigrants jostle for jobs  Author: Kristin Collins
By:  Craig Uffman on March 15, 2009 Excerpt: Business owners once said they needed illegal workers because there weren't enough Americans willing to do dirty and lowly jobs. Now, unemployment is nearing 10 percent, and citizens are lining…   Read full post >>

A Fairness Issue
Channel: Sojourners  Author: Jim Wallis
By:  Craig Uffman on March 13, 2009 Excerpt: “Without justice, what are kingdoms but bands of robbers?” – St. Augustine I was surprised when Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) opened up his remarks before the Senate Health, Education, Labor,…   Read full post >>

Ethics, Economics and Global Justice
By:  Craig Uffman on March 10, 2009
Excerpt:  In a lecture given in Cardiff, the Archbishop of Canterbury calls for patience and trust to be re-established in economic processes, and for governments to resist the lure of protectionism…   Read full post >>

OUT: Credit Scoring; IN: Face Scoring
By:  Craig Uffman on March 06, 2009
Excerpt:  In 2001, I wrote a book aimed at credit union executives entitled Member Business Lending: The Next Frontier. The book provided a blueprint for credit unions to do what most…   Read full post >>

Matters of Principal
Channel: New York Times  Author: JOHN D. GEANAKOPLOS and SUSAN P. KONIAK
By:  Craig Uffman on March 06, 2009 Excerpt: For subprime and other non-prime loans, which account for more than half of all foreclosures, the best thing to do for the homeowners and for the bondholders is to write…   Read full post >>

Warren Buffett: Beware a Nerdy-Sounding Priesthood
Channel: New York Times  Author: DAVID SEGAL
By:  Craig Uffman on March 01, 2009 Excerpt: Since the beginning of the recession, Mr. Buffett has taken on a part-time and unofficial role as the United States economy’s éminence grise. He also served on President Obama’s transition…   Read full post >>

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