Tag: Book of Proverbs
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Investing Abroad Brings Risks
Foreign real estate lures American investors with visions of low cost properties in sunny lands. But while investing abroad can be a smooth and profitable experience, putting those investing dollars into tried and true US housing markets can be the most prudent course for investors who want to build long term wealth. It’s no secret…
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Low-Tech Real Estate Scams Still Thrive
King Solomon tells us it’s prudent to avoid deceitful and lying types – and there’s no shortage of those people around with a seemingly endless stream of scams to trap the unwary. And these scammers are making big money with a few old real estate scams in slightly new clothing. Case in point: a very…
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Are Women the Voice of Investing Wisdom?
In King Solomon’s Proverbs, wisdom and knowledge are often represented as women. “Wisdom hath built herself a house, “ says the King in Proverbs 9:1, and in Proverbs 8:1, “Dotn not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice?” Though the great King was speaking metaphorically, recent studies on gender behavior reveal that when…
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Time Is On the Side of Smart Investors
When the movie Star Wars came out, France was still using the Guillotine for executions – a curious factoid that points up that what seems like a long time really may not be. King Solomon tells us in his Proverbs that wisdom offers “length of days,” (Proverbs3:5) along with riches ad prosperity, and it’s that…
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Bitcoin Trades Trigger Online Scams
King Solomon has two important pieces of advice for a prosperous life: seek wisdom and avoid deceivers. That’s especially important in the brave new world of digital currencies, which have been struggling lately with credibility issues and a bit of an identity crisis. Now, a series of online scams targeting Bitcoin trading on major online…
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Make Room for Prosperous Thinking
Belief and trust in wisdom can guide us to a more prosperous life, says King Solomon. And letting go of the limiting beliefs that put up barriers to new ways of seeing things can be the first step toward making room for the wisdom that leads to prosperity. And for today’s investors, shifting from a…
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Weather Puts a Chill on House Hunting
Did the polar vortex freeze US housing sales this year? King Solomon’s Proverbs frequently use the natural world to illustrate lessons for humans, so it shouldn’t be too surprising that this winter’s harsh weather could have a cooling effect on housing in the hard hit East Coast and Midwest. Although other factors contributed to an…
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Prudent Investors Look Ahead
King Solomon always tells us in his Proverbs that wisdom and prudence are the keys to a successful life – and that’s a sentiment that’s reflected in Jason Hartman’s Next 10 Commandments for Investors, a new set of investing recommendations that follow the key points made in the original set of 10 Commandments for Successful…
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The Dogecoin Benefits From Bitcoin Troubles
Can the world stand yet another new currency? King Solomon reminds us that wisdom and prudence are far more valuable than money. But financial advisers and economists watching the rise of more and more new digital currencies like the brand- new Dogecoin wonder if these anonymous easy to create monetary systems are really prudent —…
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The Bitcoin: Real Money or a Construct?
King Solomon tells us that no currency — not even gold and silver – are as valuable as wisdom, and his words point up how secure those real physical coins are. Now the debate continues over just what place a completely virtual form of exchange has in the world’s money system. As governments ban the…