{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F10e5527a-2c7e-4275-b273-70161f9e5d0d","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Interest: God's Money At the Right Time\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/10e5527a-2c7e-4275-b273-70161f9e5d0d\"></iframe>","title":"Interest: God's Money At the Right Time","description":"Interest on savings accounts and loans seems like a simple concept. Yet, the powers-that-be can simply fiddle with certain interest rate numbers and bring whole countries to their knees!Understanding interest rates can be vital both to our individual financial health as well as a large economy.Let's answer some questions:What is interest?What should normally determine the rate of interest?Is it actually immoral to charge interest?Should a banking monopoly or government be in charge of setting interest rates? Sources Cited:Shawn Ritenour, Foundations of Economics: The Christian View (Eugene, Oreg.: Wipf & Stock, 2009) Kindle edition, 192-193.D. T. Armentano, \"The Economics of Price Fixing,\" Foundation for Economic Education, accessed April 20, 2020, https://fee.org/articles/the-economics-of-price-fixing.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/9d281b60-e860-4cd3-a3b9-f3679178eac4/truthspressologocaption.png"}