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  • The House That Wisdom Built: Women in Investing

    In the proverbs of Solomon as well as in many other literary works, virtues such as wisdom and justice are personified as women. “Wisdom hath built herself a house,” says the great King in Proverbs 9:1, among many other references. In the days of Solomon and after, most women didn’t own houses, though, or other…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Low Mortgage Interest: Sustenance for the Future?

    Among the key precepts of King Solomon’s guidelines for success as revealed by his sayings in the Book of Proverbs, prudence and planning rank with wisdom as the essentials for living a prosperous life. Taking the long view toward prosperity and stability is better than aiming for quick, short-term gains, he says: “Substance got in…

  • Prudent Investing: Managing a Mortgage

    King Solomon was revered for his wisdom, but the King also valued prudence – acting cautiously and with wisdom. “Get wisdom; get prudence. Forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth,” he says in Proverbs 4:5. His prudence and wisdom amassed great wealth and earned him a reputation as a fair and just…

  • Tax Lien Sales: A Prudent Avenue for Investing?

    King Solomon’s Proverbs speak again and again of the need to act with both wisdom and prudence. “”If thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence… though shalt understand the fear of the Lord.” (Proverbs 2:2-2.5) In investing, as in other areas of life, wisdom and prudence go hand in hand to…

  • Bulk Home Sales: Equal Opportunities

    Although King Solomon ruled his kingdom as an absolute monarch, there are indications that he was a believer in the equitable division of things. When two women came to him with a baby, each claiming the child was hers, Solomon’s judgment was to cut the child in half – a decision that revealed the child’s…

  • Land and Improvement: Speculation Versus Investment

    Land is a primary asset, part of many, though not all, income property purchases. But land and the structures on that land are often not the same. King Solomon of Old Testament fame understood the relationship between land and structures, as he increased his holdings in what has been called the greatest kingdom of his…

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