Wall Street churches serve larger flocks

January 9, 2009

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As we approached the first Christmas of the financial crisis, I wondered whether churches near the physical center of the crisis were seeing more attendance. I approached Trinity Church on Wall Street, and St. Bartholomew's in midtown Manhattan, very close to the collapsed Bear Stearns. It turns out both had fuller pews in the weeks and months after the markets crashed in September 2008. One church was even using the financial crisis as part of its marketing campaign.

Comments

[Brandon]

Spana,Have you ever done any project manngemeat?Have you even read in detail about major projects?Just about every major project has time and cost overruns almost every one.That is a fact of life, and if you think that the BER was a F**ckup, then so is almost every major single project ever undertaken by any institution, public or private (hey BHP shareholders, remember the briquette F**ckup?) in the western world (remember that stadium in London? The billion $ overrun one? The opera house, the snowy scheme? Just about every hospital ever built?).The only difference is that the ALP actually does stuff, the coalition just lets infrastructure fall to bits and then puff itself off as a great financial manager because it.With major projects, the only way that they normally end up on time and budget is by pure blind luck.Thus a government that actually does something, is always vulnerable to one that does nothing.(23 years of Liberal economic isolation behind tariffs and a wool boom from 49-72 with consequent industry inefficiency, three years of Whitlam having inherited this crock, and it was his fault the economy tanked?)PUHLEEZ!