Last night’s news about the U.S. “jobs
market” predicted that today’s report would show strong gains. It showed weak gains, which means instead of
wondering what the “response” of the Federal Reserve will be, “investors”
(i.e., speculators) are wondering what the “response” of the Federal Reserve
should be . . . in other words, business as usual. And — as usual — we’ve been working hard to
bring the Just Third Way to the attention of prime movers and shakers:
• But before we start, here’s the usual announcement about
the 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.
• More of our tweets of the daily blog posting are getting
retweeted, and FaceBook postings are getting liked and shared. Given that so many of them deal with money,
credit, banking, and finance, this is encouraging.
• CESJ’s latest book, Easter
Witness: From Broken Dream to a New Vision for Ireland, is available from Amazon
and Barnes
and Noble, as well as by special order from many “regular” bookstores. The book can also be ordered in bulk, which
we define as ten copies or more of the same title, at a 20% discount. A full case is twenty-dix copies, and
non-institutional/non-vendor purchasers get a 20% discount off the $20 cover
price on wholesale lots ($416/case).
Shipping is extra. Send enquiries
to publications@cesj.org. An additional discount may be available for
institutions such as schools, clubs, and other organizations as well as
retailers. Initial sales are
encouraging, and CESJ (although interfaith) has applied for an “imprimatur”
which will allow the book to be used as a text in Catholic schools. We received word that the books ordered for
the Archbishop of Dublin have been shipped and should arrive today or early
next week.
• Discussions on rescheduling the CESJ annual celebration
and the Rally at the Fed are proceeding apace.
• Members of the CESJ core group are scheduled to meet with
a number of academics from Virginia Tech in a few weeks.
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 55 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, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. The most
popular postings this past week in descending order were “Thomas Hobbes on
Private Property,” “Aristotle on Private Property,” “Curb Your Dog(ma),” “Why a
Central Bank: More Practical Considerations,” and “The Purpose of Production.”
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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