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Rediscovering Religious Values In The Market Economy

Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks | Posted 02.11.2012 | Religion
Read More: European Debt Crisis, Judaism and Economics, Scripture Commentary, European Union, Market Economy, Religion and the Markets, Capitalism, Golden Calf, Religion and Politics, Judaism, Religion News
Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks

The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God. Humanity was not created to serve markets. Markets were created to serve humankind.

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God and The Marketplace

Matt J. Rossano | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: World Religions, Marketplace, Religion, Trust, Economics, Fairness, Economy, Ethics, Religious Ethics, Evolution, Morality, Morals, Market Economy, Religion News
Matt J. Rossano

How did "market norms" of trust and fairness come to rule our everyday lives? Some recent studies have demonstrated the critical role God may have played in this evolutionary transition.

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Market's Hand, God's Embrace

Sheldon C. Good | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Market as God, Prosperity Gospel, Religion, Unemployment, Invisible Hand, Economics, Harvey Cox, Christianity, Christian Economics, Free Market, Market Economy, Religion News
Sheldon C. Good

As profits and people are increasingly disconnected, does our hope lie in the market or with God? Or have the two become one, turning the market into the Market?

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It's the Dollar, Stupid

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Interest Rates, Debt, Yuan, Economy, Exports, President Obama, Currency, Larry Summers, United States, US Deficit, Tim Geithner, Federal Reserve, Japan, G-20, US Treasuries, China Surplus, Dollar, Banking Crisis, Market Economy, Gdp, China, Business News
Georges Ugeux

Behind the currency debate lies a somber reality. Most of China's exports are the result of the relocation of production outside of the U.S. -- it is American corporations that fuel the balance of payment deficit.

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The Tea Party Idea of Freedom Is Anything But

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Child Labor, Dick Armey, Hayek, Civil Rights, Ron Paul, Founding Fathers, Obama, Freedom, Communism, Senate, Liberty, Rand Paul, Human Rights, Freedomworks, Labor Rights, Slavery, Return to Labor, Glenn Beck, Market Economy, Pat Toomey, Socialism, Unions, Tea Party, Adam Smith, Social Democracy, Politics News
Jesse Larner

"Freedom" means maximizing freedom, the possibility of controlling our own lives, for all. This may sometimes require restricting the freedom of the powerful to control others.

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Houdini Does His Wall Street Thing

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Unemployment, Job Loss, Dow Jones, Market Economy, Wall Street, Business News
Dan Dorfman

Last Friday was the second time in the past eight days in which investors managed to escape a nightmare. The market shrugged off ill tidings of a disappointing July jobs report: the nightmare never came.

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