Biblical investing

When it comes to choosing an investment asset – real estate or the stock market – it sometimes seems like an episode of MTV’s Celebrity Death Match with proponents in each corner vociferously extolling the virtues of their hero. At Solomon Success, we don’t need a death match to know which is the best choice for biblical investing.

Do you have companies like Exxon Mobil, Unocal, Chevron, and Monsanto in your stock portfolio? More importantly, are investments in these companies (and others) consistent with a Biblical investing approach? Mining, oil, and chemical companies have been accused on more than one occasion of the economic plunder, rape, and pillage of Third World countries of their valuable natural resources, returning a pittance in compensation. Uncovering the facts of each individual case goes beyond the scope of this writing but the religious moral and ethical underpinning does not.