Riches to Rags
In a materialistic society, honor goes to those achieving great wealth. Within Orthodox Christianity, exalted are the riches of poverty.
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The Economics & Finance section of American Life examines the systems, ideas, and cultural forces that shape money, markets, and material life in the United States. It explores how economic behavior, consumer culture, debt, labor, and financial institutions reflect deeper philosophical and spiritual assumptions about value, purpose, and human life.
From personal finance and household economics to broader questions of capitalism, inequality, and modern financial systems, these essays offer a critical lens on how economic life shapes—and is shaped by—American culture and belief.
There is No Free Market or Democracy in America
F.A. Hayek wrote, “We have progressively abandoned that freedom in economic affairs without which personal and political freedom has never existed in the past.” The US and the West have descended into an oligarchy, leaving us free in neither politics nor economics.
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Central Bank Digital Currency is the End of Freedom
The US is moving at high speed towards a Central Bank Digital Currency. What could that mean for personal and religious liberty?
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Transgenderism, Transhumanism, and the Top-down Revolution to Transform Humanity
Transgenderism did not just happen. It was a carefully crafted, top-down revolution financed by billionaires and major industries. Why did this happen?
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How Big Foundation Money Is Subverting Traditional Christianity
A commentary on the recent attacks on Abbot Tryphon and Patristic Faith. Who is funding them and why are they happening?
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Are You Ready for Poverty, Starvation, and Digital Control?
The War in Ukraine is about to become a tragedy of global proportions. Besides poverty and starvation, we also risk our freedom.
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The Theft That Theologians Always Overlook
Theologians want to help the poor and the downtrodden, and rightly so. But there is one theft from every worker they seem to always ignore.
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