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• Thinking about Money

  
  iBenedictines — Authority: 409
  Last year’s post on St Thomas Aquinas concentrated on the humanity of the man but with all the talk about bankers’ bonuses, the not-so-brilliantly-timed withdrawal of charity credit cards and the gloom that fills the media whenever the subject of (…) Read the rest of this entry »
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• Milibands Show That Politics Remains a Con

  
  Final Conflict — Authority: 111
  Theres a few stories floating around today about the Miliband brothers. One is that David, who wanted to be Labour Party leader but failed, is now working for a City firm, making big money. Brothers in arms? The other is that Ed, who won the Labour Party leadership, is pictured getting into a flash ...
  1 week ago

• Demographics and political economy

  
  What's Wrong with the World — Authority: 501
  Here is a memorable little essay by a Canadian economics professor demonstrating that behind even very sophisticated economic systems lie the brute facts of demographics. It begins this way: As you get older, your productivity will, eventually, decline. If you live long enough, you will reach a point when you can ...
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• A Cross of Euros

  
  What's Wrong with the World — Authority: 501
  Things have turned dire again in Europe. Hard on the heels of credit downgrades at France and Austria last week, S & P’s just downgraded the credit rating of the Eurozone bailout fund, a news item that carries a whiff of hilarity to it. Euro-TARP needs a bailout! European financiers are hopeful the new ...
  1 week ago

• Post Einsteinian Language?

  
  Lifeboat News: The Blog — Authority: 416
  Twenty years ago, way back in the primordial soup of the early Network in an out of the way electromagnetic watering hole called USENET, this correspondent entered the previous millennium’s virtual nexus of survival-of-the-weirdest via an accelerated learning process calculated to evolve a cybernetic avatar from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 566
  I start my meditation with a true story that will serve as a parable. On his 21st birthday, the nature writer Francis Thompson was presented by his father with a bill for all the expenses of his upbringing including the… Read Full Article...
  2 weeks ago

• Car loans for the recently bankrupt

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 647
  I declared bankruptcy about 6 months ago. I have two small children. I need a new (to me) car. What are my options? Chapter 7 bankruptcy (bad choices + medical bills + unemployment + usurious lending = shit sandwich). Never missed or been late on a car or house payment throughout - the bankruptcy was all about ...
  2 weeks ago

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