Jerry Bowyer

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Jerry Bowyer is financial economist, president of Bowyer Research, and author of “The Maker Versus the Takers: What Jesus Really Said About Social Justice and Economics.”

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May 31, 2022
A Christian strategy to influence corporations for good
"If you are a Christian investor who's not paying attention, your money is actually being weaponized against you all the time."
May 23, 2022
Time for corporations to pivot away from politics and back to business
"Maybe we shouldn't pay Robin DiAngelo 300,000 dollars next quarter to fly in to tell all of our white employees they’re oppressors, and all of our black employees that they're oppressed."
May 11, 2022
A Christian economist on the threat of 'Christian' Socialism
"If someone described themselves as a Christian socialist to me that sounds very similar to describing themselves as a Christian Baal worshipper. Maybe it's not quite Baal, but something like that. It's almost a contradiction in terms."
Apr 22, 2022
Jesus is anointed at and ascends from the house of the poor
The poor weren't an abstraction to Jesus, nor a grift, but a community -- and a poor town was the last place on which his feet stood on earth.
Apr 18, 2022
The economics of Judas' betrayal
He didn't care about the poor, but was a thief who embezzled from the common purse which he held on behalf of the disciples. In this, Judas is a perfect stand-in for the Judean elite with which he is aligned.
Apr 14, 2022
Musk vs. Twitter is chaos vs. Tower of Babel
Sometimes it takes chaos to break down the Towers of Babel which rise up to make all the world speak, and think, the same way.
Apr 11, 2022
The Christian case against fed rate setting
The longer that rates are suppressed, the greater the eventual crisis.
Apr 8, 2022
Disney execs should remember that pride goeth before a fall
What government gives, government can take away, and Disney has a lot that can be taken away.
Mar 28, 2022
How "sustainable investing" emboldens Putin
With recent spikes in aggression from the Russian state, any actions that end up penalizing energy production from the developed world will tend to increase energy prices (which helps Putin) and push industrial production away from the industrial West.
Mar 23, 2022
Disney, reverse discrimination, and "Respect of Persons"
Workers sit through accusatory struggle sessions, while bosses get to pretend that they are Atticus Finch. So in the end, it's not really reverse discrimination: It's just plain old discrimination.