The stock market has been bouncing
all over the map and off the walls this past week in response to the falling
Chinese market and the claims coming out of North Korea. Since this means nothing in terms of the
actual productive sector of the economy, except to make completely unnecessary
trouble and siphon credit away from where it would do something other than make
speculators rich, we’ll go immediately to this week’s news items:
• Amazon Smile
program. To keep your New Year’s
resolution to participate in the Amazon Smile program for CESJ, go to https://smile.amazon.com/. Next, sign in to your account. (If you don’t have an account with Amazon,
you can create one by clicking on the tiny little link below the “Sign in using
our secure server” button.) Once you
have signed into your account, you need to select CESJ as your charity — and
you have to be careful to do it exactly this way: in the
space provided for “Or select your own charitable organization” type “Center for Economic and Social Justice
Arlington.” If you type anything
else, you will either get no results or more than you want to sift
through. Once you’ve typed (or copied
and pasted) “Center for Economic and
Social Justice Arlington” into the space provided, hit “Select” — and you
will be taken to the Amazon shopping site, all ready to go.
• Krzysztof Nędzyński of the “Financial Observer” webpage
of the National Bank of Poland sent us a copy of an interview in which the
Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, head of economic
policymaking for the country, appears to have referenced an article by Kris on
“Binary Economics: The New Paradigm.” (Nowy
paradygmat: ekonomia binarna), published this past summer. Kris’s article and the interview are in
Polish, of course, but can easily be translated using various free internet
services.
• Thanks to the Ancient Order of Hibernians Colonel John
Fitzgerald Division No. 1, Arlington, Virginia, CESJ obtained a copy of a
first-hand account of the “Easter Rising” that took place in Dublin, Ireland,
in April 1916. There are many economic
and social justice aspects of the Rising that should be examined, especially
with an eye to the direction that Ireland could take in the twenty-first
century to solve current problems and achieve the goals set a century ago — the
country would be an almost ideal place for a Capital Homesteading or Economic
Democracy Act, with the same language (although, of course, much more
beautifully spoken), and with a law code and culture similar to that of the
United States.
• A core group from CESJ/Justice University is planning on attending a
reception by the University of Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
following the March for Life on January 22, 2016. CESJ’s Director of Research met with Dr. Ryan
Madison, Associate Director of the Center for Ethics and Culture while visiting
the Notre Dame campus this past October.
Father Edward Krause, C.S.C., Ph.D., a member of CESJ’s Board of
Counselors arranged the meeting. Dr. Madison expressed interest in the Justice University concept and said we should work together.
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 44 different countries and 54 states and provinces in the United
States and Canada to this blog over the past two months. Most visitors are from
the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, and Russia. The most
popular postings this past week in descending order were “Thomas Hobbes on
Private Property,” “Halloween Horror Special XIII: Mean Green Mother from Outer
Space,” “The American Chesterton, I: The Triumph of the Will,” “Aristotle on
Private Property,” and “News from the Network, Vol. 8, No. 51.”
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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