Month: December 2010
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The Four Factors of Income Properties
Four principal factors drive the opportunity for income property investing. In most investments, such as stocks and bonds, there are only one or two factors like appreciation or dividends that drive the value of the investment. Income property is unique, because it is a multi-dimensional asset that generates value by the interplay of four primary…
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Arbitrage!
In the world of finance and economics, the term “arbitrage‟ means attempting to profit by capitalizing on price differences of identical or similar financial instruments in different markets or forms. For example, a hedge fund manager could buy a group of securities that he believes are under-valued, and execute a short sale on a different…
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God Doesn’t Need a Bank to Help You Create Wealth
What happens if your company goes belly up and you have given the bank a personal guarantee for the loan? It’s simple. The chances are good the bank will come after your assets in order to mitigate their losses to whatever extent possible. They won’t stop at some point because you’ve been a nice guy;…
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Coveting Your Own Wealth. Huh?
Is it possible to covet your own wealth and goods? According to Luke 12:15-21 it certainly is, which puts a switcheroo on the idea that the only covetous nature we had to keep an eye on was in regard to the property of others. Not so fast, ladies and gentleman. Here’s how the scripture reads:…
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God and Online Business
It’s funny how people cherry pick products or services in modern society and use them to prove (mostly to themselves) that the word of God is sometimes anachronistic and can’t always be taken literally in this fast-paced world of ours. They’ll say the men who wrote the Bible couldn’t have foreseen credit cards, the Internet,…
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Proverbs 13:18 – Poverty and Shame to the Foolishly Wise
Do you know any know-it-alls? Chances are you couldn’t throw a rock from any street corner without hitting a few. Maybe (gasp) you’re a know-it-all? Sure it’s fun pretending like you know more than everyone else, and you might even believe it, in which case you’ve REALLY got your work cut out for you. God…