Wealth
Economics, technology, work, labor. Scripture talks about money more than almost anything else. These reflections read the economy's headlines alongside texts about debt, wages, greed, and generosity.
Meta pays seventeen billion, and researchers doubt the children are safer
Forty-seven states, $17 billion, a declared win for child safety. The researchers who study these platforms are not sure anything a child sees has changed.
The power a family cannot survive the night without
A $1,373 bill. Power cut off in a summer that can kill. Behind the shutoffs, a fight over who absorbs the cost of a straining grid.
TikTok pays $400 million and admits nothing
The government called it one of the largest child-privacy settlements in history. For a company the size of TikTok, the real question is whether a fine changes anything.
A Generation Runs Ten Kilometers for the Chance to Work
Half a million young Indians compete for a few hundred secure jobs. The scramble looks like a personal failing until you ask who built the field.
A market put a price on the president's next word
An insider won six figures betting on what the president would say. When an unspoken sentence becomes a tradable asset, something shifts in the words we promise and confess with.
New Mexico Fined Meta for the Harm Children Breathe
A judge took the polluting-factory defense Meta offered and made it the verdict: the damage to kids is the emission, and it does not stay on the screen.
Towns Are Felling the Automated Cameras That Watch Every Street
A left-right revolt is sawing down Flock's license-plate cameras across the country. The question underneath the anger is who keeps the footage, and why.
Rural Texas Christians tell Big Tech the land is not for sale
In Hood County, Big Tech wants the land and the water. The people saying no are conservative Christians, and their reasons are theological.
An Ely outfitter refunds $60,000 as fire closes his season
Wildfire shut the entire Boundary Waters at peak season. One Ely outfitter, spending his own savings to stay open, is giving back sixty thousand dollars he could keep.
A Generation Leaves Faster Than the Next Was Trained
AI isn't the threat economists actually worry about. It's a generation leaving trades and hospital wards faster than anyone trained to fill them.
Leaving Home Now Costs More Than Staying
Seven in ten of the 25 million young adults living with parents have jobs. What used to make someone an adult now costs more than it pays.
Graduates Fear AI While America Runs Out of Nurses and Welders
The U.S. faces its largest projected worker shortage ever. Three thousand years ago, the richest king in Scripture faced it too, and had to write a letter.
Executives Bought a Story That Let Them Stop Counting Workers
A July 2026 KPMG survey found leaders blindsided by AI bills. The half-built tower was never a budgeting error. It was a shortcut nobody checked.
They Studied Justice. They Chose Otherwise.
Forty of 86 Brown economics students taking a course on fairness cheated using AI. A reflection on knowing what's right and choosing otherwise anyway.
A Record Year of Giving, Carried by People Feeling the Squeeze
Households gave more than ever in a year they could least afford it, while a billionaire called real generosity very hard.
Ford Brought Back the Engineers Its Machines Could Not Replace
Ford tried to automate its veteran engineers away, then quietly rehired the ones it let go to fix what the machines got wrong.
One of the richest companies on earth has its worst morale ever.
Meta's CTO says morale is the worst in 20 years, after layoffs to fund its AI race. Jesus asked what it profits to gain the world and lose your soul.
Bloomberg put $90 million behind teaching kids to weld
A $90M Bloomberg initiative will route 15,000 high schoolers in nine cities toward welding, HVAC, and carpentry. Five workers retire from the trades for every two who enter.
An 85-year-old AMC usher got $146,000 from strangers who watched her work
A young customer filmed Mary Ellen Eron, 85, hauling a trash bag in a Tennessee theater. Within days, 7,500 strangers had paid for her retirement.
Ohio paused its data-center giveaways after the farmers showed up
Iowa farmers and Sierra Club lawyers filed in the same docket. Ohio listened. Proverbs has a one-line warning about moving an old stone.
Eastlake's Last Brass
A plant that has shaped trumpets for sixty years is closing. The owner says America must protect what it makes. Production moves to China.
The People Who Stop Looking
April's jobs report looked stable. Underneath, labor force participation hit a four-year low. Jeremiah named the gap between healing and the wound.
Naboth's Vineyard, Rezoned
A Michigan township unanimously refused a $16 billion data center. The land was rezoned anyway. The Bible has a name for what cannot be priced.
Rigged Scales in the Cocoa Trade
Cocoa prices fell in 2026. Chocolate makers cheered. About 40% of cocoa-growing households still send children into the fields. The math is older than the market.
Bonuses First, Paychecks Last
Spirit Airlines is asking a court for $10.7 million in executive retention bonuses. Seventeen thousand workers learned overnight they had no jobs and possibly no final paycheck.
A Court Decides Who Pays for the Robot
A Hangzhou court told employers they cannot fire workers just to swap in AI. The ruling is small. The structure underneath it is old.
The Rust on the Gold
U.S. CEO pay grew twenty times faster than worker wages last year. The ratio is now 281 to 1. James addresses the rich directly, and the language is not gentle.
The Goods That Refuse to Scale
Independent bookstores are growing for the first time in twenty years. The comeback is not nostalgia. It is people repricing what efficiency cannot deliver.
Maryland Bans Surveillance Pricing in Groceries
Maryland outlaws the use of personal data to charge grocery shoppers different prices for the same products. Other states are watching.
AI Costs More Than the Workers It Replaces
An Nvidia executive admits AI compute costs exceed employee costs, raising questions about who truly benefits from the rush to automate.