Republican leaders criticize Trump’s plan to cap usury on credit cards
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune came out against Trump’s plan to fight usury by capping credit card interest rates.
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Articles tagged usury
Why the best Black Friday bargain is not shopping at all
Black Friday, like Boxing Day, Boxing Week, and Boxing Month, cannot supply peace of mind.
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Pope Leo reaffirms Church’s condemnation of usury: ‘Corrupts the human heart’
'How far God is from the attitude that crushes people to the point of enslaving them!' the pontiff said.
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Pope Francis’ Jubilee Committee needs to address problems of debt, usury
The Catholic Church has never deviated from considering usury a sin.
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Usury is a mortal sin. Today it rules the Western world
Money is meant for trade and production, not profit through debt. Modern finance defies this Catholic principle, making usury a centerpiece of the debt-driven marketplace.
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Tucker Carlson: ‘I’m so grateful to the Catholic Church for standing up for life’
In a new interview with Bishop Barron, Tucker Carlson praised the Church for opposing abortion, which he has described as a demonic ‘offering to the spirit world.’
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Think you know who creates money? You’re probably wrong, and here’s why
Money is produced in the form of credit, which means it comes with an interest rate on it. The result is an economic system mired in structural usury.
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Sens. Hawley, Sanders draft bill to fight ‘usury,’ cap credit card interest rates at 10%
‘Working Americans are drowning in record credit card debt while the biggest credit card issuers get richer and richer by hiking their interest rates to the moon. It’s not just wrong, it’s exploitative. And it needs to end,’ Sen. Josh Hawley said.
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New book explains why the Catholic Church has always opposed the sin of usury
In a new book titled 'Something For Nothing,' author David Hunt breaks down the pernicious, and practically ubiquitous, rise of usury in our modern culture, and why the Catholic Church always stood against the sinful and destructive practice of interest-making lending.
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All wars are bankers wars
The reality is, we do not 'need' central banks. Not in the slightest. A country, or even individual states, can create their own currency and run their own banks, either without usury, or with very low interest rates. That’s the path to freedom, and all that is required is the decision to do so, and the guts to carry it though.
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