The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Sometimes history brings together a special combination of resources and people that form a center of intellectual influence. The Weekly Sage will occasionally consider such “Schools” together. […]
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Weekly Sage #13: George Stigler – Chicago School
01 Feb 2019
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Weekly Sage #12: Frank Knight – Chicago School
25 Jan 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Sometimes history brings together a special combination of resources and people that form a center of intellectual influence. The Weekly Sage will occasionally consider such “Schools” […]
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Weekly Sage #11: Jacob Viner – Chicago School
18 Jan 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Sometimes history brings together a special combination of resources and people that form a center of intellectual influence. The Weekly Sage will occasionally consider such “Schools” […]
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What do NBA superstar Stephen Curry and EPI Chief Economist Robert Scott have in common?
13 Dec 2018
Well, this week, they both spouted off nonsense, and while one was ridiculed, the other was taken seriously. Mr. Curry, for some unknown reason, decided to opine that the moon landing was fake–a product of Hollywood fantasy. For those of us that have had the privilege of hearing from Astronauts that landed on the moon, […]
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General Motors and the Lordstown Plant Closure
03 Dec 2018
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” So begins the classic line from Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens continues with contrasts such as “it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,” which only adds to the feeling of simultaneous joy and heartache. Such is […]
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Market Volatility Returns–the end of the Boom?
21 Nov 2018
The index of stock market volatility (one measure of market fear) has risen in the past week, concurrent with large absolute point swings (although relatively low on a percentage basis). Markets are not as volatile as they were in October, but clearly there are uncertain times ahead, and markets generally like certainty. There are so […]
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Weekly Sage #4: Wilhelm Ropke
16 Nov 2018
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Wilhelm Ropke – “Economic integration – a network consisting of the division of labor, the mutual exchange of products and the specialization of production, coupled with the […]
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Trump and Trade: Bereans VLOG (10/15/2018)
17 Oct 2018
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Who’s “Protected” By Tariffs?
01 Oct 2018
This afternoon I’m prepping for our Intermediate Microeconomics class, and I’m re-reading Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson. I choose to assign this book because in the complexities of economic theory that a standard Intermediate Microeconomics course entails, we must not lose sight of the essence of economics, seeing the unseen. Thus today’s chapter is in the title, […]
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We’ve posted earlier on some of the perverse results and unintended consequences of Mr. Trump’s trade policies, but today’s WSJ highlights yet more. First, aluminum producers are finding their profits down even while aluminum prices are up, because the integrated global economy and the current division of labor have critical inputs whose prices are driven […]
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