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Category Archives: Money and Business
Fooling Ourselves
Mike Adams, aka The Health Ranger, says: We are fooling ourselves if we think that economic “prosperity” means owning stocks in a Big Pharma company that’s making a windfall because half the nation is chronically diseased, with another wave of … Continue reading
Posted in Agrarianism, General, Homeschooling, Money and Business
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Real Estate Prices – Back To The Agricultural Age?
Boy was I wrong about real estate! Thankfully the Wall Street Journal is around to correct errant backwater economists like myself. My error was in a reply to Herrick Kimball’s comment here about the potential for deflating real estate prices. … Continue reading
Posted in General, Money and Business, The Housing Bubble
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Debt-Free Housing
Good-quality, affordable housing is probably one of the most significant challenges to living a debt-free lifestyle. For some, this is so challenging that they discount the very possibility of living debt-free. In pondering the question for myself over the years, … Continue reading
Posted in Agrarianism, General, Money and Business
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Health Care Costs
I was talking to someone yesterday about health-care costs. His wife had their first child just a couple of months ago, not long after our daughter Elisabeth was born. He was telling me about their future plans, and his wife … Continue reading
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Watch Out For Falling Prices
Here’s a hypothetical situation for you to consider. Say a guy, Mr. Smith, decides he wants his his neighbor Mr. Jones’ vinyard. Jones doesn’t want to sell, but Mr. Smith is very crafty, and convinces the local town that it … Continue reading
Posted in Community, General, Money and Business
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Too Many People Owe Too Much Money
From The Daily Reckoning of July 7, 2005: The Chinese are using more and more oil. But they’re using it in an economy that is based partly on fantasy – producing things for Americans, who don’t have the money to … Continue reading
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Financial Planning
Pastor Thomas McConnell of Rayville, Missouri has written some very valuable articles on financial planning, and one thing I really appreciate about them is how he takes history and theory and then lays out very practical applications for how to … Continue reading
Posted in Agrarianism, Community, General, Money and Business
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Converting the Wallet
Martin Luther said something to the effect that to become a Christian, three conversions were necessary; the heart, the mind, and finally, the wallet. We have some work to do in the second area, and lots to do in the … Continue reading
Posted in General, Money and Business, Usury
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We Owe It To Ourselves!
Whenever you begin talking about the dire financial straits the U.S. government is in (what with being multiple trillions of dollars in debt and all, not even counting the unfunded social security obligations which could easily surpass the reported debt), … Continue reading
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Primitive Money Theory
What is money and why do we use it? Most of us undoubtedly have at least a vague memory of being taught some type of story about the primitive barter economy and the limitations thereof, in which a forward-thinking retailer … Continue reading
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