Jonathan Sachs: Are we going to see the return to Sanity in the Economy and our Lives?

Listen to it all from one of my favorite voices on the English religious scene.

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2 comments on “Jonathan Sachs: Are we going to see the return to Sanity in the Economy and our Lives?

  1. Kendall Harmon says:

    “Inflation is a result of the failure to honor limits.”

    Worthy of much pondering.

  2. SamW says:

    Bogusity meter rings …. 10! Cigars are given aplenty. This is a codswallop of Unhelpful ideas. This confounding of economics and the moral imperative of humility and restraint is patently …. well, you know where I am going with this.
    This is the sort of opportunistic moral/economic flatulence that leads to Millenium Goals and the Moral High Ground of TEC Triumphant. This is a rhetorical instance of POMO. ( Sorry KH.)
    This is nonsense.
    The current downturn in economics is a trading downturn. People are less inclined to lend or buy/invest in a market environment which is less known, familiar, changed. unstable.
    Granted there have been excesses — nothing new there; and not an indication of anything but the tendency of humans to be excessive.; we applaud constructs like the opera house in Sydney — even though it was an excessive dream and an excessive budget ; to leap into some sort of moralistic consequentialism from the excesses of lenders is …well, codswallop.
    Additionally, this puerile and romantic notion of the actions of economic actors will only help to undermine the authority vested in those who speak for the church Christian.

    Edited slightly for distaateful word choices.