Perhaps the most interesting thing
about the current fluctuations in the world’s stock markets is the fixed — and
erroneous — belief that such things have anything to do with real economic
growth. The powers-that-be can’t seem to
get it into their collective heads that “money” is the result of economic
growth, not its cause. Thinking that
printing more money will “stimulate the economy” is putting the cart before the
horse, and turning over control of money and credit to the politicians instead
of to people who actually produce marketable goods and services.
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• Amazon Smile
program. 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.
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| "I don't need a Just Third Way (But keep it under your hat.)" |
• The CESJ core group had a very good meeting on Thursday
with a professor of international political economy at Webster University. He was referred to CESJ by a priest in the
Arlington Diocese with whom we met the week before, and who was very interested
in the Just Third Way and Justice University as a possible means to implement and maintain an
economically just social order. We will
be following up in two weeks with another lunch meeting.
• This morning we received a shipment of books from the
United Kingdom. The research materials
for the project on the Easter Rising of 1916 in Dublin came in a large bag with
official seals marked “Royal Mail.”
Fortunately the contents are as impressive as the container.
• A number of people have expressed interest in the current
blog series, “Socialist Delusions, Capitalist Illusions,” and think it should
be turned into a CESJ publication.
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 54 different countries and 51 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 Kenya. The most
popular postings this past week in descending order were “The American
Chesterton, XVII: Sheen v. Radical Catholicism,” “Thomas Hobbes on Private
Property,” “The Purpose of Production,” “The American Chesterton, XI: The
Disciple of Common Sense,” and “The American Chesterton, XVI: What is Truth?”
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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