How the Mormons Make Money

Yesterday Bloomberg Businessweek released reporter Caroline Winter’s in-depth article on the financial dealings and wealth of the LDS Church, a faith which “offers little financial transparency.” As Winter notes in the high-profile report, “It’s perhaps unsurprising that Mormonism, an indigenous American religion, would also adopt the country’s secular faith in money.” She continues, “What is remarkable is how varied the church’s business interests are—and, at a time when a former Mormon bishop is about to receive the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, that so little is known about the church’s financial interests.” 

Read at Bloomberg Businessweek

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