Last year was way busier than I hoped for, and this year promises to be the same, but there is so much going on that we need to talk about–I’ll try to do better. In this past week’s news the things that caught my eye were two reports on profits. There has been a decided […]
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New Year’s Resolution: More blog posts! So start with virtue signaling and the role of profit
03 Jan 2020
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While I’m not often able to pull together a post since I’ve commenced graduate studies, I’m making an exception for Netflix’s new film The King. As I believe I remain the only Berean to ever be publicly labeled a monarchist or review a Netflix production, last Friday’s release of The King created a reviewing duty […]
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In a previous post, I cajoled Mr. Trump for his public excoriation of our Fed, yet there is a case for lower interest rates and in a big way. The primary reason is that the yield curve is inverted, and it has been for quite a bit of time. While I have previously argued that […]
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The Fed’s “sure thing” interest rate cut?!
31 Jul 2019
Later this afternoon, we’ll have the first rate cut (likely by the time you read this). If the Fed doesn’t do it, expect significant market reaction and an explosion from Mr. Trump. You can make a case either way, cutting or hiking. There is global weakness leading to increased monetary ease abroad. If we don’t […]
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A Farewell to the Weekly Sage
10 May 2019
Over a year ago, I found myself amidst a crowd strolling through the streets of Brussels mid-winter, only to stop suddenly in a square. A man was playing the violin, and a large group of people had gathered to listen. As I stood there observing, many in the crowd were gently cooing and discussing the […]
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Weekly Sage #22: John Dos Passos
05 Apr 2019
John Dos Passos “’Faith’ is a big word. Lincoln wouldn’t have needed to explain it, but today it has become one of those bugle words that leave an emotional blob in the mind instead of a sharp definition. By ‘faith’ I mean today whatever conviction produces a feeling of participation in a common enterprise. When […]
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Winston Churchill was an outspoken opponent of Russian Communism from the beginning, not only because he saw it as a threat to the British Empire, although that was true, but because he perceived that its principles were inimical to healthy human society. In 1920, for example, he wrote an article for the Illustrated Sunday Herald […]
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Dad, what’s an interest rate?
07 Jan 2019
Almost every year faculty get some list of what today’s students never knew about, such as Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton are ancient history. Some likely don’t know about the presidency of George H.W. Bush, other than perhaps a vague knowledge that he was George W. Bush’s father and an earlier president, and none remember […]
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Weekly Sage #5: Tacitus
30 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. Tacitus – “My policy is to trace proposals in detail only if conspicuously honorable or of noteworthy disgrace, for in my view the principle obligation of histories […]
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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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