Archive for the ‘Biblical Economics & Money’ Category

Economic Disparity among the Union

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

As a parent with two kids, I understand equality.  Each child is unique but our goal and challenge is to treat each child with an equivalent expression of love.  This takes on various aspects including the economic arena.  College education is the classic financial challenge in a family.  We want ...

Wagering against States & Municipalities

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

It was only a matter of time before the banks would create wagers against states such as California, New York, and Michigan.  The latest derivatives are called municipal credit default swaps.  JP Morgan Chase and Citibank are both offering these bets against the states and other municipalities.  The problem with ...

$5,000 Gold: The Warning Signs Continue

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

The cascading waterfall effect of a stock price chart is triggered by an inflection point in the markets.  Everyone expects the US Dollar to decline but it’s anybody’s guess on how and when.  The hope is an orderly decline over multiple years yet the global markets cannot be government controlled ...

The Exposure of Fraud

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

Fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.  Various degrees of fraud are carried out by most all business sectors in the American economy but the underlying intent is ...

Unmitigated Disaster

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Add 32 million people to the healthcare system without the necessary additional infrastructure to handle them and what do you get?  A disaster.  It takes a minimum of eleven years of schooling to become a primary care physician.  Many of the uninsured have pre-existing conditions already and physicians are going ...

Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History

Friday, April 9th, 2010

What’s wrong with this picture: “The love of money is the root of all evil.”  Money represents physical resources, our labor, inheritance, and other forms of tangible wealth.  For most of us, our savings represents our past labor converted and stored as a means to pay ...

The Circumcised Heart of Love

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Now available from: Servias Ministries, Inc. PO Box 1471 Bethany, OK  73008 Price $16 USD A contribution Letter will be sent for the amount above the cost of the book.  The proceeds will assist in funding other projects of Servias Ministries that encourage and promote ...

Everybody’s watching the “canary”

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

The benchmark global borrowing rate is based on the 10 year U.S. Treasury Bond.  On March 1st, the yield was 3.61% whereas on March 26th, the yield was 3.91%, up 30 basis points (.3%). See: http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/domestic-finance/debt-management/interest-rate/yield.shtml  That may not seem much to the average person but in global finance, this ...

888 Update

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

As mentioned earlier, the cycle of 888 days points to Passover 2010 which began yesterday.  I wrote about this cycle on March 26th and “coincidentally” it was confirmed by the following comic strip printed in the newspaper on that day (sent to me by my beloved friends): ...

Tipping Point gaining Media coverage

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

More and more people are jumping on to the bandwagon: