¿Quién es Keynes en el mundo?
Por: Oscar David Valencia López con Roger Oliver John Maynard Keynes, dios del déficit infinito y arquitecto del próximo debacle. Si tomaste Economía 101 en la Universidad de seguro has oído hablar de el. Si alguna vez escuchaste o creíste en la ineficacia de los límites de la deuda gubernamental, entonces estuviste expuesto a sus teorías. Los […]
Who in the World is Keynes?
John Maynard Keynes, the lord of the endless deficit and the architect of the coming default. If you took Econ 101 in college you surely have heard of him. I heard of him in high school econ. If you have heard or believed that debt limits for governments are meaningless, you at least have been […]
Spit wads and Covenants
When I was in junior high school in the 7th grade my home room teacher was Mr. Oswald. He was a thin man with a mustache and usually dressed in professorial tweed. He was jovial but serious; at least we took him seriously. He was not to be trifled with. Our math teacher, on the […]
Mexico. What’s a Missionary to Do?
April 2000 we crossed the border into Mexico for the first time as missionaries. It was an intimidating experience, partly because it was unfamiliar but even more because of the reputation of the border agents as corrupt, capricious and unpredictable. To make matters worse, it was raining, one of those occasional desert cloud bursts that […]
Do You Know What Your Child is Reading?
Recently I discovered one of our junior high boys reading Albert Camus’, The Stranger. Camus was an existentialist although he claimed not to be and was surprised that people associated him with the existentialism of Sartre. Look him up in Wikipedia. The article there says Camus contributed to a philosophy known as absurdism. Absurd is […]
On Being Single
A young lady who is a missionary with CTEN (Commission to Every Nation) wrote a very good take on being single in today’s world on her blog. You can see it here: 24 Things to Do Instead of Getting Married Before You’re 24, a response. It is a response to this article titled, “23 Things […]