A cyber-destruction of Bitcoin deposits would trigger far-reaching consequences, beyond the realm of the Bitcoin world.
Economics
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Bishop Dewane to Congress: Don’t cut programs benefiting the poor to pay for tax cuts
“The tax system should be continually evaluated in terms of its impact on the poor.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
How does Trump’s tax plan line up with Catholic social teaching?
According to Catholic social tradition, paying taxes is part of the way Catholic citizens contribute to the common good.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
How Communists and Catholics Built a Commonwealth
In our search for viable economic models, we would do well to look to the cooperatives and collective enterprises that have worked well elsewhere, including some surprisingly long-lived examples from northern Italy.
Posted inFaith, News
U.S. Bishops’ Labor Day message: “Unions must retain and recover their prophetic voice”
“The entire social pact is built around work. This is the core of the problem. Because when you do not work, or you work badly, you work little or you work too much, it is democracy that enters into crisis, and the entire social pact.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
In NAFTA negotiations, Mexico shows cautious optimism
Nafta has been the world’s most valuable trade deal, and its consequences are more deeply felt in Mexico than in the United States or Canada.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Making sense of the tension and contradictions in Kenya and Rwanda’s elections
Two elections this month in eastern and central Africa—in Kenya and Rwanda—have brought out tensions and contradictions in the continent’s democratic process.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The decline of unions is part of a bad 50 years for American workers
Worker productivity has been going up, but wages are not keeping up.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
How Catholic business schools can do better than Harvard
Where elite secular schools fall short of setting the tone needed to humanize the world of business, Catholic schools can deliver.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
How much do Catholic priests and their lay colleagues make? A new report gives answers.
According to a new report, a large gap exists between the median salaries of administrative positions and pastoral positions.