Investing in the Market

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I think when it comes to investing in our current environment. There is this aspect where you know someone tries to pitch you an individual stock. And then you might have to kind of say as Christian no, I can't support that. But then if you think about investing in an S&P 500 index fund or an ETF. What are these financial instruments trying to do there is trying to invest in the overall economy as a whole and anything specific that any individual companies doing or not doing that's kind of getting washed out in the diversification mix.

Are Christians called to navigate their finances differently from everyone else? Are the oft-repeated directives to save aggressively and avoid all debt either scriptural or wise? Is it possible that spiritual wisdom and practical wisdom are sometimes one and the same? Join David and Curtis in this excellent discussion with James Choi, Professor of Finance at Yale. As a Christian and a behavioral economist, James brings both spiritual and practical wisdom to the area of personal finance and exposes where some of our most popular financial gurus might be giving us poor advice.

Show Notes:

-Derek Thompson (The Atlantic) - All the Personal-Finance Books Are Wrong

-Greg Rosalsky (Planet Money) - An economist studied popular finance tips. Some might be leading you astray

-Why I am a Christian (James Choi)

Follow Curtis’ work at RedeemingBabel.org

Produced by Kris Carter