King Solomon made it clear in his Proverbs that wisdom and prudence are more precious than silver and gold. Today wise investors and market watchers around the world are keeping an eye on what’s...
Biblical investing
The Shutdown's Over: Now What Happens to the Stimulus?
There’s a time for every purpose under heaven, says King Solomon in Ecclesiastes, chapter 3. And as financial experts assess the damage done to the economy by the recent government shutdown and a...
Should Parents Teach Kids About Investing?
King Solomon believed that wisdom begins at home. Many of his Proverbs are directed toward the younger generation: “Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend, that you may know...
Go to the Alpine Swift, Investor
“Go to the ant, o sluggard,“ says King Solomon in a famous quote from Proverbs 6:6,” and consider her ways, and learn wisdom.” We humans have aloway looked to animals for inspiration and guidance in...
The Debt Ceiling Debate: Is Housing At Risk?
“Wisdom hath built herself a house,” says King Solomon in Proverbs 9:1. And as the government’s shutdown continues, new concerns about the fate of the federal debt ceiling remind us that Solomon’s...
10 More Words for Wise Investing
King Solomon’s words on wise money management in the Books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes echo down the ages with timeless advice for modern investors too. Today, successful people including a sports...
Are You Still Making These Three Investing Mistakes?
It’s clear that King Solomon’s advice for successful and prosperous living hinges on the twin virtues of prudence and wisdom – and in a world filled with advice from all sides about the best ways to...
The Bitcoin: New Currency for Cyber Crime?
In King Solomon’s day, silver and gold were the currencies of exchange – but worth far less than wisdom, in the wise monarch’s eyes. “Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and is rich in prudence....
Banks Turn to Automated Assessments to Skirt Liability
In a complex financial world filled with so many pitfalls and variables, prudence, as King Solomon so often reminds us, is the watchword. And now, somewhat belatedly, the nation’s large (and small)...
The Government Shutdown Spares Mortgages
In King Solomon’s age of monarchs and principalities, government shutdowns didn’t happen, but his views on the obligations of rulers to make fair and reasoned decisions still stand, as the US...