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#184 Competition is More Effective Than Regulations
http://media.blubrry.com/1463975/davearnott.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/184-Competition-is-More-Effective-than-Regulation.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreChristians are called to take care of widows and orphans, because in the agrarian economy of Biblical times, those were the people who didn’t own land, so they were not capable of economically providing for themselves. In the 21st century,…
Read More#183 Who Should Care for the Homeless
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Read More#182 Your Economic Reputation
http://media.blubrry.com/1463975/davearnott.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/182-Your-Economic-Reputation.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreDuring his testimony in front of the Judiciary Committee, John Durham had a powerful response to the attack on his reputation: “My concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect and my family and my Lord.” Are…
Read More#179 Artificial Intelligence is Pretty Smart
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Read More#178 Economic Freedom Must be Defended
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Read More#175 The Economic Effects of Illegal Immigration
http://media.blubrry.com/1463975/davearnott.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/175-The-Econonmic-Effects-of-Illegal-Immigration.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreMost of the six million illegal immigrants who have crossed the US southern border in the last two years are claiming political asylum. They are being allowed to enter because of election politics. The real reason is economics. The largest…
Read More#174 Never Let a Crisis go to Waste
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Read More#173 Simple Rules for a Complex World
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Read More#172 When the Government Owns it All
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Read More#169 How Green Policies Impoverish the Poor
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Read More#157 Gridlock is Good
http://media.blubrry.com/1463975/davearnott.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/157-Gridlock-is-Good.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreGridlock is good, at the national level. More political and economic decisions should be made at the state and local levels. The Bible calls for even more decisions at the family and church levels. A friend asked recently about…
Read More#117 Economic Sanctions
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Read More#84 Big Tech as Big Brother
http://media.blubrry.com/1463975/davearnott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/84-Big-Tech-as-Big-Brother.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreChristian Economists don’t want a Big Brother, because we have a Good Father. The Free Market Forum is a conference supported by Hillsdale College in Michigan. I have attended a few times and always learned something valuable about the interaction…
Read More#21 Economic Humanism
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Read More#12 All Things in Common?
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Read More#7 Competition and the Fallen Nature
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Read More#6 Jesus Distributed the Gospel Unequally
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Read More#5 Wait or Walk?
http://media.blubrry.com/1463975/davearnott.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Wait-or-Walk.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreIs the economy a force of nature made by God, or a machine that human’s adjust? Christian economists believe there is a God who guards and guides, so we believe in more passive fiscal and monetary policies.
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