Bogle claims such practices may help Wall Street brokers but clearly hurt investors who would be better off to hold stocks for the long term and avoid transfer fees. Now, the tendency is to flit from one stock to another in the hope of hitting the jackpot. This “rent-a-stock” mentality can be seen in the … Read more
“John Horvat has put together a compendium of good thinking about a lot of diverse subjects and integrated them into a coherent outline of a worldview. His integrated understanding of diverse human phenomena would be eagerly and widely accepted in the Europe of the Middle Ages. More recently he would likely fall into the company … Read more
Everyone can agree that the horrific massacre of innocent grade-school children in Newtown, Conn. was truly monstrous. It was an event that defies the imagination to conceive how someone might do something so cruel and inhuman. Worse yet, this is not an isolated incident. Similar cases are occurring with greater frequency, prompting many to ask … Read more
What would an inorganic society be like? Free Audio Book: Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society—Where We’ve Been, How We Got Here, and Where We Need to Go It would resemble a machine. That is to say, all its parts would be moved by the will of a … Read more
By Norman Fulkerson * The biggest shopping day of the year, known as “Black Friday,” has now invaded the most family-centered holiday. The electrifying shop-till-you-drop excursion formerly began in the wee hours of the morning after Thanksgiving. It eventually crept up to midnight of the same day and this year stores such as Wal-Mart, Target, … Read more
Perhaps the best way to describe an organic Christian society is to take an example of a society from the past, which existed in the Christendom of old. In that society the most vibrant of all the elements was the family. Indeed, although the State and other lower social groups are born from the very … Read more
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In the book, Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society—Where We’ve Been, How We Got Here, and Where We Need to Go, we speak of an explosive element in modern economy that can be seen in the video on Black Friday shopping. The key to understanding this mad rush to … Read more
In a real consumer society, the customer should have some say in the production of goods. There should be a subtle cooperation whereby the producer is constantly adjusting available materials to customer tastes. In this way, producer and customer become the “co-creators” of goods. This is the foundation of vibrant and creative culture since, when … Read more
The continuing debate over the “financial cliff” and the general state of the economy raises matters of such a magnitude that we tend to be overwhelmed and confused. Perhaps the best way to address these issues is to leave the almost surreal world of multi-trillion dollar liabilities and come down to earth with some basic … Read more
