Tag: jason hartman
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The Courts: Last Word In Foreclosures?
In many of the Proverbs of King Solomon, a house stands for many things: prosperity, stability and even qualities such as wisdom, or prudence. For Solomon, a house represents stability prosperity and positive values –keys to living a godly, comfortable life. Today, housing still carries those qualities – and one indicator of stability in the…
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Baby Boomers: Changing the Housing Landscape
For King Solomon, old age was a time of reaping the rewards of a prudent and pious life, surrounded by family and the wealth of a lifetime of wise actions. As he says in Proverbs 3: 1-2, “ My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments. For they shall add…
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Just and Equitable Dealing: A Cornerstone of Good Investing
From his words in the books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, it’s clear that King Solomon, the wise son of David, despised wealth without wisdom, and the unjust treatment of the poor – who, because they lived honest, prudent lives, were more worthy of regard than those who had money but no discernment. That’s an important…
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Lying Tongues and Wicket Plots: Mortgage Fraud Returns
Honesty and fair dealing are essential to prosperous living – and investing. For the Bible’ King Solomon, the lying and scheming of the wicked are an abomination and des3erve punishment. Among the things the Lord despises, says the monarch of the Israelites in Proverbs 6:16-17, “Haughty eyes a lying tongue, a heart that deviseth wicked…
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Don’t Choose Financial Suicide
We feel pretty safe in saying that the number of individuals who created their wealth through a reliance on government handouts remains pitifully small. The problem is that social engineering programs like Social Security and Medicare were never intended to do anything other than keep a certain voting class motivated enough to pull the lever…
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Preserving Wealth With Wisdom
In recent posts we’ve been discussing King Solomon’s firm assertions that wisdom is the most valuable asset an individual can have – especially where finances are concerned. For him, wealth without wisdom is worse than poverty –as we see in a number of his proverbs. “There is gold and a multitude of jewels,” he says…
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Wealth Needs Prudence for Prosperity
Although a very rich man, King Solomon valued wisdom and learning more than silver and gold. As his writings in the Book of Proverbs reveal, the King saw little virtue in simply amassing wealth without a measure of prudence and wisdom. “What doth it avail a fool to have riches, seeing he cannot buy wisdom?”…
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Wealth Has Its Privileges – and Higher Taxes
Although Solomon was a monarch of great wealth and power, and by Biblical accounts, one of the greatest of the ancient Israelite kings, his sayings in the Book of Proverbs suggest that he viewed the rich with a fairly cynical eye. For Solomon, wealthy men who choose riches over wisdom, and have no respect for…
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Five Proverbs For Investing Success
King Solomon’s wisdom on money matters speaks through the ages to modern day investors using Biblical guidelines for making financial decisions. With observations on managing wealth wisely, making prudent choices and even diversifying investments, the great King’s sayings recorded in the books of Ecclesiastes and Proverbs can be interpreted in the context of the current…
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The Shadow Inventory and Housing Recovery
Among the principles for prosperous living stated by King Solomon in his Book of Proverbs is patience: “A faithful man shall be much praised, but he that maketh hast to be rich, shall not be innocent,” says the King in Proverbs 28:20, suggesting that Christian investors work patiently toward long term goals rather than making…