Study finds that ‘regions with high concentrations of evangelicals saw lower gains in home prices and less volatility than similar regions with fewer evangelical residents’
March 31, 2009
New York Times (HT: Thinking Christian)
Time to sell your Crocs stock
March 24, 2009
Blogging Stocks (HT: Mark Daniels)
The ‘C’ Word
March 24, 2009
By Dan Edelen
Julie was a store manager of Furniture Fiesta. Four years ago, Digi-World picked up the small chain in an expansion move, hoping to expand into the office furniture market space. But a bad economy exposed Furniture Fiesta as a ball and chain on Digi-World’s overall business. Nine months ago, Julie got the word: Furniture Fiesta would soon join the likes of Circuit City and Steve & Barry’s.
After putting in a dozen years, Julie knew she needed to move fast to save her career. She polished the résumé and checked out a list of Furniture Fiesta competitors that were still standing. That’s when Glenn called.
Glenn was a Digi-World regional manager. Desperate to keep knowledgeable staff, Glenn pitched Julie a hard-to-refuse offer: Stay on, see the store liquidation through to the end, and take home a $30,000 bonus. She bit and signed the contract.
And now, after putting in her nine months, months when she could have been pounding the pavement before the economy tanked even further, Glenn had the nerve to tell her the bonus deal was off. Not only that, but Digi-World’s flotilla of legal sharks had found a way to negate her contract …
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SNL: ‘Don’t Buy Stuff’
March 23, 2009
(Video HT: C. Michael Patton)
Study finds recession hasn’t affected church attendance
March 13, 2009
Pew Forum (HT: Sam Hodges, Religion Blog)
‘Great Shots of Tough Times’
March 13, 2009
Slideshow at Slate (HT: Richard Clark, CAPC)
Funny post-recession corporate logos
February 4, 2009
Business Pundit (HT: Kem Meyer)
Hype is Our History
February 4, 2009
Last night, I was half-listening to Campbell Brown wonder out loud about the stimulus package President Obama is trying to get through Congress, and what America had to do to fix its economic crisis when she said, “we’ll be right back after this.”
The commercials that followed were a glitzy lineup of hype for stuff I really didn’t need to have. A nation full of people with no money to buy stuff we don’t really need in the first place is one of the reasons for this economic crisis. Our economy, it seems, only has one speed - full bore - anything less and it begins to sputter, like the engine on a drag racer when you try to let it idle.
We live in the land of hype …
‘Are Christians stingy?’
February 2, 2009
Amazon: Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don’t Give Away More Money
Israel ‘could dramatically reduce its dependency on foreign imports’ with new-found undersea gas field
February 2, 2009
‘Hard Times’
January 27, 2009
A video produced to coincide with Granger Community Church’s series, Surviving Tough Times:
Hard Times from Granger Community on Vimeo.
‘Spike Lee: Hand of God Caused Economic Crisis to Get Obama Elected’
January 20, 2009
Jeff Poor, Business and Media Institute (HT: Kris Rasmussen)
Kenneth Copeland’s $3.6M jet not tax-exempt … ‘Prosperity Gospel on Skid Row’
January 15, 2009
Bobby Ross, Jr., Christianity Today
Forbes columnist: ‘Wall Street is about to become the new Catholic Church–the most distrusted and vilified institution in America’
January 2, 2009
Dan Gerstein (HT: Rod Dreher)
‘No evidence that recession pulls people to the pews’
January 2, 2009
