The theme of this dinner is “the church, business and the economy”. Most of us here are Christians and we take our faith seriously and try to live our lives in line with the teachings of the church.
I thus would like to argue that, unlike what our history has taught us, it is possible to run a successful enterprise while living true to the teachings of our faiths. Let us recall the periods when an economy has distortions such as high unemployment, high inflation, low growth rates, and episodes of scarcity of  2  goods or services.