Much of Mr. Trump’s economic success has been challenging the way things have been done under the Obama administration, and charting a decidedly different course. Tax cuts instead of tax hikes, deregulation instead of regulation. And it’s working; yesterday’s revision of 2nd qtr GDP was positive, and the composition was even better–consumer spending was down […]
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Living the Truth in Politics: Part 3
29 Aug 2018
***This is a three-part series on Living the Truth in Politics. Part 1 sets the stage of how truth is treated in the political realm. Part 2 looks at how the Bible treats truth, especially for the Child of God. Part 3 examines the obvious conflict and attempts to answer a question: how does the […]
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I’ve been criticizing Mr. Trump for trade for some time now, and unfortunately I don’t think that’s going to let up anytime soon. However, I want to continue to give him credit in this limited sense: Presidents (and politicians generally) don’t make the economy grow faster, but what they can do is take away the […]
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The Bereans: An Imminent Upgrade
17 May 2018
Readers! We are in the process of a website upgrade here at Bereans@TheGate. I think you will find the new site a bit more clean and modern. The color palette is updated, and the logo and artwork are different. You will also notice a couple of new features. First, we will have a dedicated space […]
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Could Russell Moore be wrong? Maybe we don’t need less Christian engagement in Politics, maybe we need more?
25 Apr 2018
I love Russell Moore; I greatly enjoy his teaching and respect much of what I hear from him. Yet while a foolish person may be occasionally right, so too can a wise person be occasionally wrong. In an article over at 9Marks, Dr. Moore suggests that politics has consumed the Christian church. I read into […]
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Jonathan asked a good question in response to our VLOG this past week, and I think it merits a separate response to spell it out. For those that did not watch the video, I basically argued that Christians should be concerned when the pursuit of justice is guided by politics, rather than justice being blind, […]
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When in the Course of human events …
04 Jul 2017
… it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they […]
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Venezuela is starving, please pray
05 May 2017
From today’s WSJ, Venezuela is starving (gated). No political economy discussion really needed here. The socialist experiment is turning Venezuela into North Korea, with all the attendant misery. This is potentially going to be worse than Syria. This is an unmitigated, albeit predictable, disaster. No need to discuss the issue as to why, just pray for […]
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Ted Poe, R-NC, and a House member of the Freedom Caucus, has quit the group, uttering these words among others: “saying no is easy, governing is hard.” This was in reference to the Caucus’s opposition to the American Health Care Act, which was pulled by Paul Ryan before a vote. Poe says he wants to […]
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The Saudis are learning the economics of perfect competition–Price equals Marginal Cost.
10 Mar 2017
Oil took a dive south again this week, going below $50/barrel yesterday. As we’ve discussed before, the American “fracker” is now the marginal supplier–ready to turn on the spigots at the first sign of a higher price. In an introductory Econ course, we’ll review what is often called “perfect competition,” or more appropriately, a price-taker market. […]
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