Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Grab, Hold, Speculate: What's Fueling Taiwan's Land Price Explosion - CommonWealth Magazine
Speculation has caused home prices here to rise to absurd levels - to the point that ordinary people can no longer afford to buy homes, unless it's with the help of their parents, while both the husband and wife work full-time.  This article explains why.

Real Estate Rage: Our Land, Their Luxury Homes - CommonWealth Magazine
In Taipei salaries are stagnant, but housing prices soar, lifted ever higher by the luxury real estate market. What can be done to restrain rampant property speculation and defuse mounting anger?


Taiwan’s Unbridled Development: An End to the Era of the Wolf - CommonWealth Magazine
More about the way the rich exploit the poor, with the help (or unconcern) of the government.

Reagan insider: GOP destroyed economy Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch
I don't think it's the GOP alone, but all of American society is failing.  America's not in good shape these days.


Training Pastors, Rabbis, and Imams Together - TIME
And by this headline, and knowing that this is the idea of a Methodist seminary school, you will know that the Methodist church has lost sight of the Gospel of Christ, which is repentance, and a turning to Christ for our salvation, as only He has lived a perfect life which can appease God's wrath and work as a substitute for our sinful selves. 
The hope of officials at all three organizations is that when leaders study their own religious traditions together alongside friends of other faiths, they will develop the respect and wisdom necessary to transform America's fractured religious outlook.

This is not what Americans need - what they need is to turn to God for salvation, knowing that they deserve His wrath, as do all people, and that He will save them if they genuinely rely on Him, and Him alone, for salvation, and make Him and His glory the center of their lives.  I pray that this will happen.