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Christian Economics: Pope John Paul II on Socialism
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A PhD student's perspective on Catholic Social Teaching and economics. Modern Money Fact Sheet. Monday, September 26, 2011. Pope John Paul II on Socialism. The role of the State is always a hot topic and often comes up in discussions I have with others or in the articles, blogs, etc. that I read. This seems to be de facto evidence of socialism's inability to be a system of organization and of capitalism/libearlism's triumph. So why, exactly, is Socialism bad? This is especially confirmed by the events wh...
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Christian Economics: Fiscal Cliff Notes
http://csteconomics.blogspot.com/2012/12/fiscal-cliff-notes.html
A PhD student's perspective on Catholic Social Teaching and economics. Modern Money Fact Sheet. Tuesday, December 18, 2012. Some of my (somewhat well-educated) thoughts on the fiscal cliff:. 1) The fiscal cliff is NOT the point at which the government runs out of money. 2) The fiscal cliff IS the point at which spending cuts kick in and tax cuts expire so that the deficit closes. 3) Knowing this, we still think we have to shrink the deficit. 4) We need a larger deficit! 5) What we spend money on matters!
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Christian Economics: Step 2: ???
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A PhD student's perspective on Catholic Social Teaching and economics. Modern Money Fact Sheet. Sunday, February 24, 2013. I'm not sure why I remember that night so well, but every time I hear a politician or pundit talking about reducing the deficit I can't help but think of the episode I saw that night. You see, the episode I saw was about the "underpants gnomes" who'd go around at night stealing underpants. Step 1: Collect underpants. Step 1: Reduce deficit by cutting social programs and raising taxes.
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Christian Economics: The Dignity of Work and the Evils of Unemployment
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A PhD student's perspective on Catholic Social Teaching and economics. Modern Money Fact Sheet. Monday, April 11, 2011. The Dignity of Work and the Evils of Unemployment. Labor or work is very important in one's development as a person. Here is a snippet from a paper I am writing on labor, this particular piece is from CST's perspective:. 8221; (LE 6). The purpose of work is man, “ work is for man and not man for work. 8221; (LE 6). In opposition to this view of work, the modern trends of materialism and...
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Christian Economics: January 2013
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A PhD student's perspective on Catholic Social Teaching and economics. Modern Money Fact Sheet. Friday, January 11, 2013. The trillion dollar platinum coin idea is making all the headlines these days. Background on the Coin:. Co-Author of Platinum Coin Law Weighs In. What about money scares everyone so much? Background on where the idea came from:. Trillion Dollar Coin Inventor. Origins of the TDPC. If we allow ourselves to hit the ceiling, we will in effect declare voluntary default. This is like te...
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Christian Economics: Socialism vs. Capitalism, Part 1
http://csteconomics.blogspot.com/2011/02/socialism-vs-capitalism-part-1.html
A PhD student's perspective on Catholic Social Teaching and economics. Modern Money Fact Sheet. Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Socialism vs. Capitalism, Part 1. To be clear, “the Church has no models to present” (43 Centesimus Annus (CA) . Their teaching is simply meant to guide our decisions and our political/economic models. It is meant for us to apply the teaching to specific problems or situations. So what is wrong with socialism? The socialists, therefore, in setting aside the parent and setting up a S...
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Christian Economics: Employment for All
http://csteconomics.blogspot.com/2011/09/employment-for-all.html
A PhD student's perspective on Catholic Social Teaching and economics. Modern Money Fact Sheet. Thursday, September 1, 2011. A friend I have met in the blogosphere, known as DarwinCatholic. Or sometimes just Darwin) has agreed to engage in a debate with me over a federal job guarantee program. Here is my very truncated argument (it is very difficult to make this argument in a short blog post, but I'm gonna give it a shot):. 1) Full employment is desirable. 2) Price stability is desirable. In Caritas in V...
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Christian Economics: Should we #MinttheCoin?
http://csteconomics.blogspot.com/2013/01/should-we-mintthecoin.html
A PhD student's perspective on Catholic Social Teaching and economics. Modern Money Fact Sheet. Friday, January 11, 2013. The trillion dollar platinum coin idea is making all the headlines these days. Background on the Coin:. Co-Author of Platinum Coin Law Weighs In. What about money scares everyone so much? Background on where the idea came from:. Trillion Dollar Coin Inventor. Origins of the TDPC. If we allow ourselves to hit the ceiling, we will in effect declare voluntary default. This is like te...
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Christian Economics: February 2013
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A PhD student's perspective on Catholic Social Teaching and economics. Modern Money Fact Sheet. Sunday, February 24, 2013. I'm not sure why I remember that night so well, but every time I hear a politician or pundit talking about reducing the deficit I can't help but think of the episode I saw that night. You see, the episode I saw was about the "underpants gnomes" who'd go around at night stealing underpants. Step 1: Collect underpants. Step 1: Reduce deficit by cutting social programs and raising taxes.
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Christian Economics: Fiscally Insane
http://csteconomics.blogspot.com/2012/11/fiscally-insane.html
A PhD student's perspective on Catholic Social Teaching and economics. Modern Money Fact Sheet. Sunday, November 18, 2012. This means that the $16 trillion government debt is the world's net savings in the U.S. dollar of account. Since savings are good and since we would expect the economy to continue to grow, we should expect that savings and thus the debt will go up forever. This means 17, 18, 19 trillion and counting and that's a good thing! Not something to be worried about! The proof is in the puddi...
