by Sean Reilly | Jul 21, 2008
President Roosevelt must be turning in his grave. The mortgage guarantee institution that was created to help solve America’s depression-era housing crisis seems to have had a central role in instigating a new economic crisis – and perhaps even a new depression....
by Sean Reilly | Feb 10, 2008
The turmoil in global financial markets caused by the widespread failure of subprime loans in the US, does leave one wondering what would happen if just a small proportion of the £1.25 trillion (that’s right, trillion) in consumer debt we all owe on cards,...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 1, 2008
In a provocative short article in the International Herald Tribune newspaper, Phillip Blond, who has long been associated with the Cambridge-originated group of scholars exploring a post-modern ‘radical orthodoxy’ school of Christian thought and practice, argues that...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 17, 2008
In a move that is designed as a challenge to “consumerism as usual” and a reminder of the dominance of money in our lives, the Methodist Church in Britain has launched an alternative Credit Card containing a “buy less” message. The new...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 3, 2007
Interfaith religious leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean have met with officials from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank to discuss ways of working together to advance the struggle against poverty and...
