Search results for: "risk" (20)

Bankruptcy, Debt Forgiveness and Loan Modification

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The created foundations of finance include our creation as social beings who take risk and do not know what the future...

The Right Amount of Debt

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Can biblical principles help us determine how much to borrow or when to borrow? Several of the biblical foundations...

Working at a Hedge Fund

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A hedge fund is a mutual fund that invests in specialized financial instruments not usually available to individual...

Making Lending Decisions

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How does our finance theology inform whether to make a loan to a particular customer and at what interest rate? Several...

Unproductive Use of Proceeds

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God’s intent is that finance be a form of sharing, over time, among borrowers and lenders. There is only something to...

Instruments

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Financial instruments are promises between two or more parties with differing resource needs which are tailored to allow...

We Are Risk Takers

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God created us to be able to take risk and provides biblical support for taking risks (Genesis...

We Create Resources for a Future that We Do Not Know

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God created risk, in that we do not know what the future holds (Ecclesiastes 8:7). But God created us with an ability to...

Finance Can Be a Means of Justice and Love

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Finance makes certain activities of justice and love possible. We are using Wolterstorff’s conception of justice...

God Calls Noah and Creates a New World (Genesis 6:9-8:19)

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Some situations may be redeemable. Others may be beyond redemption. In Genesis 6:6-8 , we hear God's lament about the...

God Works Through Human Ingenuity (Ruth 3:1-18)

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In instigating the courtship between Boaz and Ruth, necessity once again leads Naomi to move beyond the bounds of...

Bluffing

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One of the most common violations of truthtelling in the work world is bluffing or what some call, “mutual...