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It's Tuesday, April 19, 2022.
I'm Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
How many hours should you work in a week? Who should say how many hours you should work in a week? Who should say how many hours a company or an employer might require employees to work? When do you have a normal work week over which hours are counted at say something like time and a half? Who decides any of these things? But as it turns out, those questions are among some of the most basic in economics, but they are also some of the most basic as we think about the worldview implications of our economic lives.
Now, as you think about forms of economic theory, you can think of, say on the far left wing, forms of collectivism, that is to say it is a denial or a restriction of private property and the right of individuals to establish private contracts. On the other side, you have laissez-faire, absolute free market. And...
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday (April 6, 2026) accused Congress of unleashing a “foreign-influenced misinformation campaign” against him and his wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma ahead ...