Roger McKinney

Roger McKinney

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Roger D. McKinney lives in Broken Arrow, OK with his wife, Jeanie. He has three children and six grandchildren. He earned an M.A. in economics from the University of Oklahoma and B.A.s from the University of Tulsa and Baptist Bible College.  He has written two books, Financial Bull Riding and God is a Capitalist: Markets from Moses to Marx, and articles for the Affluent Christian Investor, the Foundation for Economic Education, The Mises Institute, the American Institute for Economic Research and Townhall Finance. Previous articles can be found at facebook.com/thechristiancapitalist. He is a conservative Baptist and promoter of the Austrian school of economics.

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  • Christians can’t redeem capitalism if they don't understand it

    Christians can’t redeem capitalism if they don't understand it

    Many economists are predicting a recession to begin some time next year so before hysteria takes hold, this might be a good time to consider what causes recessions.

  • How the heresy of inherent human goodness created the heresy of socialism

    How the heresy of inherent human goodness created the heresy of socialism

    Democrats in California were confused because the spike in crime damaged their most cherished belief in the goodness of humanity: people are born good and turn bad only because of oppression. The government can rid the country of oppression and return everyone to a state of innocence. 

  • Advisor to Baylor president preaches “racial capitalism” myth

    Advisor to Baylor president preaches “racial capitalism” myth

    The “racial capitalism” nonsense is nothing more than a warmed over version Marx’s “primitive accumulation.”

  • Free trade is Biblical

    Free trade is Biblical

    One of the Ten Commandments of which national conservatives are so proud is “Thou shalt not steal.” The chain of logic from that command to free trade is not so long.

  • No Biblical basis for student debt cancellation

    No Biblical basis for student debt cancellation

    Republicans have opposed President Biden’s debt cancellation for students who piled up tens of thousands of dollars in debt to get a degree. The left assumes many of the Republicans are Christians and this gives them an opportunity to prove again that the Democrat party doesn’t understand Christianity or like it.

  • Should we blame Biden for the recession?

    Should we blame Biden for the recession?

    Americans ... want to keep alive the fiction that their government is all-wise, all-knowing and all-compassionate. Christians know it is not. 

  • Will the death of an icon end the evangelical left?

    Will the death of an icon end the evangelical left?

    The late Ron Sider was a typical evangelical theologian, taking his cues from anti-Christians on social issues then using a crowbar to force the Bible to conform.

  • Socialists love abortion because they hate families

    Socialists love abortion because they hate families

    Can economics explain the left’s rage over the Supreme Court’s abortion of Roe v. Wade? It can, and the logical chain isn’t that long. But we must understand true Marxism, not the popular myth that it is nothing more than a way to help the poor. 

  • Romney’s Family Security Act is not pro-life economics

    Romney’s Family Security Act is not pro-life economics

    Romney, like most politicians, doesn’t understand moral hazard, one of the most important principles in micro-economics. Moral hazard teaches us that if you eliminate the consequences of risky behavior, you get more risky behavior.

  • Jesus cared about government and economics

    Jesus cared about government and economics

    Christians know that Jesus isn’t just human; he is God. As God, he wrote the Torah that became the constitution for the nation of Israel. So, while Jesus had little to say about government in the Gospels, he said a lot in the Torah about what kind of government he prefers for his people.

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