Category Archives: Money and Business

Disowning Walther (And Luther, and the Council of Nicea, for that matter)

Posted on 10/30/2007 by Dabitur

C.F.W. Walther was the first President of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod (LC-MS). I was very interested to learn that Walther was strongly opposed to usury, and that his definition of usury included the taking of any interest. (Also of … Continue reading →

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An Overview Of Usury

Posted on 6/12/2006 by Dabitur

In this article I will make a brief explanation of what usury is and why it is wrong. I won’t, at least in this article, be able to offer a detailed rebuttal of every possible attempt to justify usury. Such … Continue reading →

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What Saith Agabus Today?

Posted on 5/16/2006 by Dabitur

And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the … Continue reading →

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What To Do In Light Of The Housing Bubble

Posted on 8/4/2005 by Dabitur

MALIBU, Calif. — So wonderfully Californian, Marsha Weidman’s home has it all–along the beach, far from noisy traffic, with a Jacuzzi used to watch sunsets over the Pacific. For this, she and her husband recently paid $1.05 million. For that, … Continue reading →

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Biblical Agrarianism – The Answer To The Debt Bubble

Posted on 8/3/2005 by Dabitur

[This post was written by Reverend Thomas C. McConnell. You can send your gracious comments, questions, and feedback directly to him using the contact information at the end of the article, or you can leave your comments here in the … Continue reading →

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Learn Not The Economic Ways Of The Heathen

Posted on 8/2/2005 by Dabitur

Mike Whitney of Dissident Voices tells about his conclusions regarding the housing bubble: I sold my home three weeks ago anticipating what I believe will be “Economic Armageddon” in the United States. It wasn’t an easy thing to do. My … Continue reading →

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Greenspan’s Plan

Posted on 7/29/2005 by Dabitur

In my reading this evening I came across Alan Greenspan’s excellent argument for putting our money into hard assets: In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no … Continue reading →

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Owe No Man – The Discipline of Debt-Free Living

Posted on 7/27/2005 by Dabitur

[This article is written by John Thompson. You can send your gracious comments, questions, and feedback directly to him using the contact information at the end of the article, or you can leave your comments here in the normal manner.] … Continue reading →

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Tax Reform

Posted on 7/26/2005 by Dabitur

This coming October will mark the 92nd anniversary of the income tax in America. The original legislation signed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913 was 16 pages long (today it is about 6,400 pages long). This legislation imposed a 1% … Continue reading →

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People Pay Money For GM Stock?

Posted on 7/22/2005 by Dabitur

Standard and Poor’s rates their debt as “junk”, they lost $1,100,000,000 in the first quarter, they lost another $286,000,000 in the second quarter, and they withdrew their 2005 earnings and cash-flow forecast because they’re not sure how they can resolve … Continue reading →

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