Links for 02/01/17: At the Hill, Eric LeCompte of JubileeUSA explains why repealing section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank legislation, which required transparency by big oil and other extraction industries of their payment...
MGB: The sad thing is that transparency is an article of faith in the free market, which is why the free market and capitalism are two different things. The less transparency, the more likely people bid up prices over and above what a free market would do.
Concern for migrants goes back to Torah and before, but the last two hundred years has magnified the amount of migration and the abuse of migrants. In some cases, not allowing migration is a death sentence. It takes spirituality to get over this intolerance. Sadly, pandering to this intolerance has become a successful political strategy for the Administration, even among otherwise religious people. Of course, many of these are more authoritarian than spiritual.
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