Taking Stock

Dear Daddy:

Wasn't that terrible the other week when the guy made up all those lies about that company and spread them all over the Internet--you know, about how the company president was resigning and/or being investigated and the company was falsely said to be losing a lot of money and being in SEC trouble -- and this was all set up so the stock price would tumble downward and the bad guy was all set to make a lot of money on the deal -- you remember?

Then, the scam is quickly figured out by the authorities, but a lot of innocent investors trying not to get wiped out had already sold their stock during the plunge---and when the price went back up to its regular place, they had lost tremendous amounts of money.

What do you think about this -- and what is your advice for Christian investors?

On Margin

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Dear On:

I think there was a crime, it was solved extremely quickly, and the only stockholders who really got hurt pretty much deserved it -- by using all their little cutesy electronic intelligence to monitor everything they got the jump on everybody -- and rather than try to help their fellow stockholders get to the bottom of things -- maybe seek justice or even save the company, they just tried to dump the stock before others found out about it -- who did they think ought to be ending up holding their bad investment -- you got it figured out -- anyone but them. Everyone else is a sucker to them.

The reality is, these folks were not investors, they were speculators -- high tech enhanced gamblers -- they got a bit of what they deserved.

Advice for "Christian" Investors? Really act Christian in what you are doing -- think through what you are helping to happen with an investment -- or in getting out of an investment.

A little Golden Rule thinking wouldn't be a bad idea here. Maybe God has some dividends planned for you that you could never earn on your own. The real "unearned income," that is never taxed.

Daddy

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Past Issues of 'Dear Daddy'

What is Gunophobia?
Reclaiming Freedom
Loving Correction
Throw Off the Shackles
Death Penalty 'Balance'
Keep Christ in Christmas
Ten Commandment in Schools
The Never-Born and Heaven
Who Do You Serve?
Separation of Church and State
Flag Football
A Letter to Major League Baseball
Diversity of Guilt
Anti-Gun or Anti-Sanity?
Real Creationists
What an Example!
A Jealous Nanny-State
"Feed My Sheep"
Conditioned Response
Allegiance to Pagan Spirits
'Dangerous' Goods?
A Free Press Dream
National Victims
Strategic Blunder
Rejecting the Creator
Congressional 'Living Will'

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