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Cindy Jacobs: Prayer Needed for Global Economies

Description of prayers that God will intercede to assist the NYSE and the Fed. Cindy Jacobs says, "We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the 'Lion’s Market,' or God’s control over the economic systems." Seen on Alison Shaffer's Facebook page.

Tags: economics, financial_crisis, religion, evangelicalism, ritual, news, weird, post:facebook(source) on 2008-10-31 -All Annotations (2) -About

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Foreclosures: Did God Want You to Get That Mortgage? - TIME

The new popularity of the "Prosperity gospel" may well have fuelled the current financial collapse. In a side note -- Anthea Butler sure seems to be in the news a lot lately.

Tags: post:rels, news, religion, christainity, evangelicalism, financial_crisis, economics on 2008-10-04 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The Magnitude and Meaning of the Proposed Bailout | National Priorities Project

A few things that we could do with $700 billion, besides bail out rich people's bad investments.

Tags: financial_crisis, commentary, economics, money on 2008-09-27 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, 9/1-9/5/2008

The second hour on 9/2/2008, with Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers (two Wharton economists), on the subject of the economics of happiness, is something I'm very curious about.

Tags: !toread, podcast, radio, audio, happiness, psychology, economics, interview on 2008-09-20 -All Annotations (2) -About

more fromwww.whyy.org

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Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, 9/1-9/5/2008

The second hour on 9/2/2008, with Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers (two Wharton economists), on the subject of the economics of happiness, is something I'm very curious about.

Tags: !toread, podcast, radio, audio, happiness, psychology, economics, interview on 2008-09-20 -All Annotations (2) -About

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Robert Jensen, "The Delusion Revolution: We're on the Road to Extinction and in Denial," AlterNet (August 15, 2008) (lecture)

From the page: "A version of this essay was delivered to the Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice, Peace, and Social Movements at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver on Aug. 11, 2008. Audio files of the talk and discussion are available online from the Radio Ecoshock Show."

Tags: commentary, opinion, sustainability, environment, future, end_of_the_world, latoc, energy, economics, via:friendfeed, post:facebook(source) on 2008-08-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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This Entitlement of Free Needs to Go Away

Tags: web, blogclip, commentary, economics, 2.0 on 2008-07-10 and saved by4 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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"What the World Eats": a week's food for families around the globe

Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio travelled around the world and documented, in writing and photos, the diets of 24 families in different locations. For some reason the first one on the list here, showing a family in a refugee camp in Chad, didn't clip.

Tags: consumerism, del.icio.us_import, economics, food, globalization, image, international, photography, poverty on 2008-02-25 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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"Can the world afford a middle class?"

This is an interesting, straightforward, clear-eyed article, if not as subtle as the title makes it sound. (It doesn't really mean "middle class," it means "people who aren't living at a subsistence level.")

Tags: commentary, del.icio.us_import, economics, energy, environment, international, post:facebook(source) on 2008-02-09 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Jared Diamond on global consumption inequalities

I've wondered for a long time when someone would make this point publicly: "development" of the developing world is ecologically unsupportable. He calls the promise of development "a cruel hoax."

Tags: bad_news, commentary, del.icio.us_import, develpment, economics, environment, international, opinion, politics, post:facebook(clip) on 2008-01-03 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Marx, "Introduction to a critique of political economy" (excerpt)

This (the clipped section) is a great quotation. I first saw it here: http://worldcat.org/oclc/68133035

Tags: criticism, del.icio.us_import, economics, history, marx, philosophy, post:facebook(clip), primary_source, theory on 2007-12-04 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Malawi averts famine by dropping free-market policies

Interesting story. After being pushed for years to adhere to strict free-market policies with regard to agriculture (i.e., abandon subsidies, encourage the cultivation of cash drops, and use foreign exchange to import food), Malawi finally decided to igno

Tags: africa, agriculture, del.icio.us_import, development, economics, food, international, news, post:facebook(clip), via:twitter on 2007-12-01 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Do you know where that crucifix comes from?

Via http://snipr.com/1u90g. The Association for Christian Retail (over $4 billion in business annually), following in Wal-Mart's footsteps, uses Chinese sweatshop labor to make crucifixes and sells them with the label "Made in Italy."

Tags: blogclip, consumerism, del.icio.us_import, economics, international, labor, post:facebook(source), religion, trade, via:nytimes on 2007-11-27 -All Annotations (0) -About

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