Showing posts with label Vatican. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vatican. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

The Pope and Populist Politics

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Pope Francis plays populist politics by supposedly taking on an economic stand . Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories wh...
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Friday, March 15, 2013

Chart of the Day: First Non European Pope in Nearly 1,300 Years

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Chart from Reuters Short non-related personal opinions From the way headlines on the domestic mainstream media looked, it would s...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Has the Pope’s Resignation Been About Vatican’s Controversies?

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Pope Benedict XVI took the Catholic world by surprise by announcing his resignation at the end of the month allegedly "because of adva...
Thursday, January 03, 2013

Vatican’s Scapegoating Capitalism

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The easiest way of blaming social evils has been to bash capitalism.  A good example has been the recent New Year homily by the Catholi...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

How Italian Renaissance Bankers Bought off the Church

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From at Mary Tao at the New York Fed Research Library (hat tip Bob Wenzel) What do the Italian Renaissance and the Great Depression ha...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

HOT: Charges of Corruption in the Vatican

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Even the Vatican has not been spared from charges of corruption and from internal political power struggles. From the Daily Mail , Va...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

Vatican Banker Endorses ECB’s Inflationism

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Not even the pious seem to be exempt from the temptations of inflationism From Wall Street Journal , The European Central Bank should...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Vatican supports Occupy Wall Street

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From the Reuters The Vatican called on Monday for sweeping reforms of the world economy and the creation of a ethical, global authority...