This past week the stock market has soared like an eagle and
dived like a turkey. As a result, even
more “experts” are sticking out their necks and predicting a crash in the near
future. What remains puzzling is the
fact that so few of the experts realize that there is an alternative to the wild
swings that characterize the modern business cycle: Capital Homesteading and
the Just Third Way. Maybe some real
people are starting to catch on, however, which would explain the popularity of
some of our recent articles, a few of which are getting worldwide attention:
• CESJ’s article that appeared last
month in Homiletic and Pastoral Review,
“Pope
Francis and the Just Third Way”, has been translated
into Spanish, formatted, and sent to a significant number of bishops in Central
and South America and the Caribbean. It
is available both as a stand-alone piece and in a dual language version in .pdf.
• A new article by
CESJ’s Director of Research has been published on Catholic365: “Justice
Without Rights?” The article focuses
on some odd comments made by Vatican advisor Dr. Jeffrey Sachs that hinted Pope
Francis might have problems with Americans’ adherence to their natural law
rights of life, liberty, and property.
Since these are also at the heart of Catholic social teaching, it is
unclear why Dr. Sachs believes that Pope Francis would have a problem with them.
• A Portuguese translation of “Pope Francis and the Just
Third Way” is in preparation, and we are exploring a translation into French.
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 51 different countries and 48 states and provinces in the United
States and Canada to this blog over the past two months. Most visitors are from
the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, India, and Guatemala. The most
popular postings this past week were “Halloween Horror Special XIII: Mean Green
Mother from Outer Space,” “News from the Network, Vol. 8, No. 28,” “Thomas
Hobbes on Private Property,” “Solving the Greek Debt Crisis, VIII: Specific
Monetary Reforms,” and “Solving the Greek Debt Crisis, V: Presenting the
Solution.”
Those are the happenings for this week, at least those that
we know about. If you have an
accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a note about it at
mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into the next
“issue.” If you have a short (250-400
word) comment on a specific posting, please enter your comments in the blog —
do not send them to us to post for you.
All comments are moderated, so we’ll see it before it goes up.
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