Economics
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NewsSaturday Selections – Sept 19, 2026
What’s one of the biggest things Christians struggle with in college? “So what is it that people struggle with the most? The average believer on…
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EconomicsNobody knows how to make a pencil
What is a pencil worth? It’s a simple question, about a simple product, and it highlights just how complicated our economy is, and how very…
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NewsOntario’s “conservative” gov’t opposes bill that would have banned gambling ads
Ontario is awash in new gamblers. As ARPA Canada reported earlier this year: “A recent study found that since iGaming Ontario was introduced, total monthly…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 27, 2026
Envy is a sin. Wealth isn’t. If you could make everyone twice as wealthy, would you do it? This is an odd fellow, making a…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 13, 2026
Brandon Lake’s That’s Who I Praise Here’s a whole bunch of people having a whole bunch of fun praising God! I, Smartphone Nearly 80 years ago…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 30, 2026
When John MacArthur visited a philosophy class In this clip John MacArthur starts off sounding quite arrogant – he says he everything clearly. but he…
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Book ReviewsPrincess Navina visits Malvolia
The most important of topics aren’t always the most interesting. That’s why, instead of writing a textbook on the subject of “how government policy goes…
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EconomicsThe Parable of the Talents: the Bible and entrepreneurs
The parables of Jesus teach eternal truths, but they also offer surprising practical lessons for worldly affairs. In the Gospel According to Matthew (chapter 25,…
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EconomicsFriedrich Hayek (1899-1992) showed us that free enterprise is necessary for freedom
One of the greatest social theorists of the twentieth century was a libertarian – some would say conservative – economist named Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992). Hayek…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Mar. 28, 2026
Some good news about euthanasia Scotland has voted against euthanasia after looking at the horror happening in Canada. 1 in 5 Canadian employees works for…
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Economics – Home FinancesA business tithe on sales?
Every sale has a story and an opportunity behind it. • Someone trusted you and chose your product or service. • And as believers, we…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Jan. 31, 2026
Reformed and Dangerous’s Christ is King A little harder rocking than some of us might be used to, but the fire in the music is…
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Adult non-fictionHow an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
by Peter Schiff and Andrew Schiff 2014 / 304 pages Economics affects everyone but few people care to learn much about it. All the numbers…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Nov. 15, 2025
Women don’t belong in combat (5 min) That world won’t acknowledge that it is Who made us, and in Whose Image we are made (Gen….
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Adult fictionTime will run back
by Henry Hazlitt 368 pages / 1951 Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift As novels go, this is intriguing. As economics textbooks go it is downright amazing. Like 1984……
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NewsCan you track all the ways you’re taxed?
Each year the Fraser Institute observes a “Tax Freedom Day” – this year it happened on June 8 – that tracks Canadians’ total tax burden…
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EconomicsOn why freer trade is best
The following is based on Real Talk’s episode #126, “Mere Economics and the Issue of Tariffs,” with host Lucas Holtvlüwer talking to economics professor and…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 17, 2025
Micah Tyler’s “Praise The Lord” It ain’t always easy following God, but His goodness is certain. The daily battleground we often ignore in our therapy…
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EconomicsLet’s not be the squeaky wheel
Fewer people are using VIA Rail, more trains are behind schedule, and the Crown corporation continues to bleed money by the millions: that’s what Canada’s…
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NewsSaturday Selections – April 5, 2025
Click on the titles to go to the linked articles. Broken Window Fallacy explains what government gets wrong Politicians can always point to the results…
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NewsTariffs as a dressing down: if it is about drugs we should listen
With a lot of bluster and bravado, President Trump has made good on campaign promises to impose trade tariffs limiting other countries’ access to the…
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EconomicsTariffs are terrible economics: why Canada shouldn’t hit back
Free trade – free of barriers and restrictions – has, traditionally, been pretty exclusive to the Right side of the political spectrum. But now, with…
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Adult non-fictionThere’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths
by David L. Bahnsen 2021 / 308 pages This is a wonderful primer on economics from a conservative Christian perspective (and the second There’s No…
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Adult non-fictionNo Free Lunch: Six economic lies you’ve been taught and probably believe
by Caleb Fuller 20021 / 138 pages Every now and again I’ll hand out a book to any nephews or nieces willing to give it…
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NewsCanadian economy stank it up under Trudeau
With the Justin Trudeau era (almost) over, it’s time to assess his record. In a January 9 article posted to The Hub, Lakehead University’s Professor…
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Economics – Home Finances“Honey I blew the budget!”
A FEW THOUGHTS ON GETTING BACK IN THE BLACK AFTER TAKING A PLUNGE IN THE RED “Honey I blew the budget!” Do those words sound…
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EconomicsPremier Ford calls on the feds to make EV cars more expensive
Ontario’s premier has asked the federal government to impose a 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles, which would make these cars twice as expensive as…
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NewsSaturday Selections – April 20, 2024
Painting without a license could soon be illegal in Minnesota Government growth is like the slowly rising temperature that eventually boils the frog in the…
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Book ReviewsThe Hyperinflation Devastation
by Connor Boyack 400 pages / 2019 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Remember those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books kids loved back in the 1980s? Readers would be brought…
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EconomicsChristians can’t “invest” in cryptocurrency
I hope this headline got your attention! I can hear some of the objections already: What do you mean, we can’t invest in cryptocurrency; don’t…
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DocumentaryThe Pursuit
Documentary 77 minutes / 2019 RATING: 7/10 “From 1970 until today the percentage of people living at starvation’s door has decreased by 80%. Two billion…
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Adult non-fictionChristian Economics in One Lesson
by Gary North 2015 / 268 pages Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is what its title suggests, just one economic lesson explained in the first…
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Adult non-fictionEconomics in One Lesson
by Henry Hazlitt 1946 / 193 pages Universal basic income, a four-day work week, and government-funded daycare are just a few big-ticket proposals that are…
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EconomicsThinking on the margin, or why some pollution is better than none
An important aspect of economics is counting the costs of an action or purchase, and, on the flipside, also evaluating the benefit that could result….
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EconomicsTHERE’S NO FREE LUNCH – an economic principle Christian teens (& adults) need to know
Small revolutions in schooling are occurring across the world. From homeschooling to microschools, many parents find themselves wanting more for their children in terms of…
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EconomicsOn achieving equality…
I was recently confronted with the disturbing statistic that evidences the ultimate case of gender inequality: the life expectancy of males is 6.1 years lower…
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NewsSaturday Selections – September 10, 2022
Economics 101: how profits answer the “knowledge problem” How can we know what to make? And how much to make? And who would be best…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 18, 2022
Can our kids be salt and light in government schools? (2 min) Maybe… if they were trained. But in a government school who is training…
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Book ReviewsNobody knows how to make a pizza
by Julie Borowski 2019 / 30 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give The picture book’s title makes a claim that my daughter just couldn’t believe: “Come on Dad, you know…
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Economics – Home FinancesIs gambling wrong? And if so, what about buying stocks?
Some Christians won’t invest in the stock market because they believe that investing in stocks is really no different than buying a lottery ticket. Both,…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Dec. 18, 2021
The #Psalm124Project The #Psalm124Project is all sorts of churches and groups singing this same Psalm, separated by time and space, but united in praise for…
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EconomicsThe hidden tax of inflation
Prices are on the rise in many countries around the world. Price increases are measured by a statistic called inflation, which expresses the percent prices…
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EconomicsThe $15 minimum wage – good intentions are not enough
In the US, the latest COVID-19 relief package has re-awoken the debate on minimum wage increases, and that policy conversation is spilling over into Canada,…
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NewsSaturday Selections – February 27, 2021
Actors react to facts about the “wage gap” (3 min) These actors were asked to give a “cold read” – they hadn’t previously had a…
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NewsSaturday Selections – January 16, 2021
Sea shanties go viral (7 min) If you have boys who think singing is girly, there’s a new viral trend of men singing manly. For…
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EconomicsLove Gov: Breaking up with government is hard to do
Here’s something new: an economic argument for small government presented as a comedic drama. And Love Gov is a romance too, sort of. Alexis is…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Nov 7, 2020
What cobras can teach us about incentives Prov. 27:14 teaches that good intentions are not enough. And yet many a government policy is implemented, not…
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NewsSaturday Selections – August 15, 2020
Thomas Sowell on the benefit of the 10th Commandment While Thomas Sowell doesn’t mention the Bible, the point he makes here is a biblical one….
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EconomicsThinking in terms of tradeoffs rather than solutions…
In a June 2 Facebook live discussion with fellow Conservative MP Garnett Genius, Arnold Viersen outlined two very different ways that politicians tend to approach…
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EconomicsIt’s A Wonderful Loaf: why free enterprise makes bread in abundance
In the illustrated economic poem below, the author shows how the free enterprise system – with supposedly no one in control – can deliver bread…
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EconomicsTwo tales of trade: how free trade creates wealth
As Christians we know that man is prone to all sorts of evil, but we often forget that man is also prone to all sorts…
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NewsSaturday Selections – April 4, 2020
3 things to remember when you’re feeling anxious (3 min) “It’s striking that the most frequent command in the entire Bible is to not be…
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Economics5 things Christians should know about income inequality
Income inequality is still at the forefront of conversation for many people. Thankfully, there are biblical principles that help Christians understand whether income inequality is a…
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Saturday Selections – February 29, 2020
Could giraffes fit on the ark? Answers in Genesis has made a 30-second commercial for their Ark Encounter in Kentucky. It’s based on all the…
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DocumentaryWait till it’s free
Documentary 2014 / 82 minutes Rating: 9/10 Why would Canadians be interested in watching a Scotsman take a look at the American healthcare system? Because…
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Saturday Selections – June 8, 2019
Dude Perfect’s does more than bottle flips If you and your family don’t already know about Dude Perfect, these guys provide some good clean and…
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Saturday Selections – May 18, 2019
Caterpillars feeding on an explosive treat (3 min) BBC Earth is all about getting viewers closer and deeper into Nature than we’ve ever been before….
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Book lists3 provocative, powerful, PG-rated, dystopian novels
The best dystopian books warn us of an undesirable future that seems far too likely for our peace of mind. The most famous examples are 1984…
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EconomicsThe $33/hr minimum wage?
As of January 1, the minimum wage in New York City was boosted to $15 an hour, a more than doubling of the $7.25 minimum…
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News26 richest people own as much as the world’s poorest 3.75 billion
The 26 richest people on the planet hold as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the world’s population. So says the Oxfam Inequality Report…
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Saturday Selections – Jan. 5, 2019
Is our galaxy in the center of many others? This is a tentative finding that the Institute for Creation Research urges Christians to hold onto…
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NewsVenezuela’s inflation to hit 1 million percent?
An official with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is predicting that by the end of the year Venezuelan inflation will his 1,000,000 percent. What does…
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NewsWhy do more today feel like have-nots?
Back in 1988 a Pew Research poll of Americans found that a majority thought they were doing quite well, describing themselves as “haves.” Just 17%…
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Saturday Selections – June 23, 2018
What submission means for singles Wives are called to submit to their husbands so does that mean submission is only for marriage? Supercomputers don’t compare…
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EconomicsThe rich get richer by making us all wealthier too
Coveting is not only a sin, it’s stupid. It’s important we’re clear on both points, because the Devil is willing to work any angle. He…
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NewsWhen marriage means only: “a way to avoid taxes”
Matt Murphy and Michael O’Sullivan are good friends – they’ve been friends for almost 30 years. They are also straight. And, as of the Dec….
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HistoryKarl Marx: preaching a different gospel
To mark the 100th anniversary this month, of the Communist Revolution in Russia, we’re sharing Piet Jongeling’s brief biography of Karl Marx, first published 34…
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NewsDestruction only destroys – the “broken window fallacy”
We are halfway into the 2017 hurricane season and tropical mega-storms in the Atlantic basin have already broken several records. Hurricane Irma has sustained its…
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EconomicsThe rich keep getting richer… and they’re not the only ones
Capitalism helps everyone. That might be hard to believe right now, with the worldwide economy in the doldrums, and with many fingering capitalism as the…
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EconomicsWhat is “Equal Pay for work of Equal Value”?
Canada’s Liberal government has announced plans to bring in “equal pay for work of equal value” legislation by 2018. It would apply to almost 900,000…
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Economics – Home FinancesDo we need to tell our mortgage banker about our school payments?
BEING CHRISTIAN AT THE BANK A reader recently sent in an interesting and somewhat difficult question about home purchases, school fees and tithes. Now most…
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EconomicsIf strikes are bad can unions be good?
I grew up hearing horror stories about unions but little else. Unions were bad because union members threw bottles and sticks at their opposition. Later…