Posted in Personal Finance on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In September, Chicago outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas announced that August layoffs had rocketed 85 percent to 79,459 in August from 42,897 in July, continuing a steady march upward in job cuts since spring.
What does this mean to you? As Harry Truman once said, “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; [...]
Posted in Personal Finance on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When rich families squabble over the family legacy, it becomes headline news. Witness the recent battle over the ownership of the Wall Street Journal between members of the Bancroft family. When approached by media titan Rupert Murdoch, various family members fought over whether to preserve the family legacy at the legendary daily business paper or [...]
Posted in Estate Planning, Money & Children, Personal Finance on January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The airwaves are full of cautionary tales of young people with too much money too soon – wretched excess is in, and responsibility seems, well, pretty boring. And your last name doesn’t have to be “Hilton” for you to worry. Inheritances, trust funds and other benefits from hard-earned family fortunes of any size can affect [...]
Posted in Christian Finance on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From my friends over at Reclaiming the Mind Ministries:
The news has been out since 2004 that the world’s leading atheist, Antony Flew, changed his mind in light of the available evidence.
Like waking up from a bad dream, a number of atheists and skeptics reacted in, well, . . . disbelief. Their stance shifted to skepticism [...]
Posted in Investments, Personal Finance on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rick Ferri, a Registered Investment Adviser in Troy, Michigan recently wrote a short piece urging the SEC to implement official named categories of types of investment advisers based on the compensation method by which the adviser is paid.
The three proposed categories:
“Consultants” provide the purest form of ‘advice’ because they earn a fee for consulting. The [...]
Posted in Christian Finance on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Bible provides specific principles regarding money management that work-regardless of the current economic climate.
1. God Owns it All
We are simply managers of His resources
God can take whatever He wants, whenever He wants
Every spending decision is a spiritual decision
Stewardship cannot be faked
“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all [...]
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