Over 7 million job lost, rising unemployment rate, plunging stock market values – while most of the headlines over the past two years have focused on the negative impacts of this current recession, there have also been some positive impacts as well.
Are you spending money on things that you know God wouldn’t approve of?
Here are some tips to help get your financial house in order and to help remove the stress that money can bring to your marriage.
While it’s great that American consumers have been able to take advantage of the government’s cash-for-clunkers program, the heralded program may actually end up doing more harm to the economy than help.
We can hope that the economy will be in full recovery mode by early 2010, but many economists believe that is unlikely. Without a recovery in consumer spending, revenues will continue to decline and companies will need to look at making more cost cutting initiatives. This could lead to potentially more layoffs in 2010 as companies try to deliver better than expected earnings performances by reducing their cost structure.
Throughout the Scriptures we find admonitions to remember the poor in the land and yet there are many today who choose to ignore these passages. People tend to come up with a multitude of excuses justify their inaction, but let’s take a look at how the Bible would answer some of those common excuses.
The recovery in the real estate markets is now being heralded by financial pundits everywhere. So how can investors capitalize on the recovery in the real estate markets?
God does offering blessings to His people. However, these blessings do not always come in the form of financial prosperity. “…a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” (Luke 12:15). The Lord certainly doesn’t want us to be constantly asking for material blessings. Any material blessings we can ask for in this life fall far short of the wonderful blessings that he has in store for us.
While the markets have seen huge gains off the lows of early-March, the healthcare sector hasn’t seen the huge gains that financial and tech stocks have experienced. For the most part, stocks in the healthcare sector have been held back by President Obama’s healthcare reform initiatives. Many recognize that healthcare stock valuations appear to be low, but no one wants to jump in with so much uncertainty in the market.
Thousands of years ago there was a time of abundant prosperity in Egypt. The economic boom continued for seven consecutive years. Riches were made and the nation lived as though the prosperity would continue forever.