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Philadelphia ends ‘policing for profit’ program
The News: The city of Philadelphia ended a four-year lawsuit involving what critics said was “policing for profit.” According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, “Philadelphia officials on Tuesday pledged to reform the city’s civil forfeiture program, which had been used to seize thousands of homes and vehicles and millions of dollars in cash from criminal suspects — and in some cases from people never charged with a crime.” The Background:Civil asset forfeiture is a controversial legal tool that allows law enforcement...
Can you (or anyone) beat the stock market?
Note: This is post #94 in a weekly video series on basic economics. When even professional stock pickers are not able to consistently beat the market, you probably shouldn’t invest your life savings on the the hot stock tip from your brother-in-law. Why is it, though, that no one seems to be able to outperform the crowd? The reason, as economist Tyler Cowen explains, is information. In this video by Marginal Revolution University, Cowen explains the efficient market hypothesis, the...
Why we must protect the religious liberty of social institutions
Note:This article is part of the ‘Principles Project,’ a list of principles, axioms, and beliefs that undergirda Christian view of economics, liberty, and virtue. Clickhereto read the introduction and other posts in this series. The Principle: #4F — Social institutions have religious liberty that must be protected. The Definitions: Religious liberty — The freedom to believe and exercise or act upon religious conscience without unnecessary interference by the government. (Source) Social institutions —Groups of persons banded together mon purposes having...
The U.S. surges in economic freedom: Global report
The Fraser Institute brought good news as it released its annual “Economic Freedom of the World” report this morning.The United States has surged in the pared to two years ago. “Canada has gone from being a top five country two years ago, to barely hanging in the top 10 on this year’s index,” said Fred McMahon of the Fraser Institute. “On the other hand, the United States has improved from 13th to sixth.” The institute defines economic freedom as how...
The Catholic Church vs. China’s Communist Regime: A Struggle for Religious Liberty
Finding the balance between religious liberty and state authority is an age-old concept, but politicians and religious leaders today are ever wrestling with it.This is especially true for the current presence of the Catholic Church in the People’s Republic of China. In an article for the Catholic World Report, Acton’s Director of Research, Samuel Gregg, relates the present tension between the Communist regime in China and the Holy See in Rome. This tension is largely due to China’s new “Regulations...
The failure of ‘Homo Economist’
When Pope Francis denounced “libertarian individualism” last year, few people could find a flesh-and-blood example of the philosophy as articulated by the pontiff. However, the gimlet eye of Stream editor John Zmirak may have found a related species in a creature he identifies as Homo Economist – a theoretical person who contrasts pletely with the human person as viewed by advocates of constitutional government, ordered liberty, faith, and adherence to the precepts of natural law. In the pope’s accounting, libertarianism...
C.S. Lewis on ethics and conscience
The lighthouse of Christianity shines because it is based on the reality of an objective and universal Moral Code that we mysteriously know and have broken, said C.S. Lewis. It is this truth which makes Christianity’s offer of forgiveness, and its gift of supernatural help towards keeping that Moral Code, so incredible. In this video, Lewis shows that conscience is not an invention of civilization or of great human teachers but is as old as Adam and Eve, and has...
7 Figures: Income and poverty in the U.S. (2017)
The U.S. Census Bureau released its latest report on e and poverty in the United States today. Here are seven figures from the report you should know: 1. Real median household e of all male workers increased 3.0 percent from 2016, while real median earnings for their female counterparts saw no statistically significant change between 2016 and 2017. 2. Median household e was $61,372 in 2017, an increase in real terms of 1.8 percent from the 2016 median of $60,309....
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